Haha so true
Frequent interruptions disrupt one class after another. Fire drills, air raid alerts, messages from the office, telephone calls, students distributing bulletins, early dismissals-there seems no limit to the imaginations of people who disturb teachers. I can remember no occasion in the last five years when anyone has interrupted one of my classes at (the university). Perhaps these conditions account largely for a significant difference in attitude which I find on the part of a larger percentage of my high school than of my college colleagues. Most of them admit to doing minimal work and to approaching teaching as a job rather than as a creative intellectual experience.
An interesting article, even for a Primary/Elementary/Kindergarten teacher like me. Actually teaching content makes up just a small part of my day.
I don’t know if it’s just China (is it?) but I keep seeing people walking together with others and one of them has their headphones in. Is it that we need now, constant auditory input?
Hello new friend.
Love these books. Seems like the tv adaptation comes out on May 16th too. Please be good, please be good, please be good.
Finished reading: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells 📚
Talk about coming to Chengdu for a few nights
Two panda selfies in a week. This time at the panda centre in Chengdu.
If this isn’t terrifying.
The Weekly Dispatch #5 - by Carl Hendrick
Lots of interesting links about teaching here that I’m going to go back to later this week… Probably.
Some idle chatter about recent events. Elise is a member of the student council now.
A single beer with Beau Mile’s latest video about driving from Seattle to LA eating only at diners. Always comfortable watching but interesting that he has a couple of complaints which you don’t normally see.
Panda selfie
Going to the zoo today! With 27 5/6 year olds! (And other adults too.) I love school trips because you get to see the kids as they really are, though at this age they are better at being themselves at school too. Still, it’s going to be a long day!
“Whatever this life is, it’s all we have. And we don’t want it to end.” Mark S
I have this stuck in my head too from the Season 2 finale.
#Severance
What if kids had the right to ignore our feedback? Not because they’re stubborn or disengaged, but because they understand it—and decide to make a different choice.
Too often, feedback feels like a demand: Fix this. Change that. Do it this way. But writers? They get feedback, weigh it, and sometimes say, “No, I’m keeping this.” That’s not disengagement—it’s ownership
If something gives you a hit of dopamine, and you didn’t have to work for it, then that’s a smell you should investigate.
That’s right isn’t it?
Beware any dopamine hit that doesn’t require effort – Mike Crittenden
I’ve been doing them but not taking photos. Today with bonus quote!
I need some new running shoes. Such an easy rabbit hole to fall down.
If we want kids to actually use feedback, it has to belong to them. Because the best feedback isn’t what we tell them—it’s what they understand enough to use.
If Kids Don’t Understand the Feedback, It’s a Waste of Time – Pernille Ripp
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe” - John Muir
The issue is always that when I write here, I get distracted and want to write about something else and then I lose momentum and tend to stop. It’s not so much of an issue in my journal. I can just keep going.
Enjoyed this, even if I wanted more information about the city.
Finished reading: Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano 📚
Noodles for lunch.
