First Day Back Again
Today was the first day back at school following a 3 week break. Some highlights:
- For the first time in all my years at Cochran, the clocks did not work. When I got to school, all the school clocks said it was 3:20 and we apparently were dismissed at 10:00pm
- One of my students told me he celebrated his birthday at Chuck E. Cheese’s. Who knew that good old Chuck would still be relevant to today’s 14-year-old kids!
- The kept eyeing my new binary clock (pictured) trying to figure out first, what it was, and once they had figured out it was a clock, they spent a while trying to figure out how in the world to actually tell time by it. We’ll see how long it takes me before I teach them how to actually read the thing.
- Finally, I spent my lunch time visiting 6th grade homerooms trying to get them to apply for magnet schools. They weren’t to terribly intrigued until I told them I’d raffle off an iTunes gift card for one winner among all the students who brought the application back. It’s amazing what a little bribery can do.
Themocracy
You forgot to end your entry with “…and that’s why I teach for America!”
itunes gift card– NOT bribery but MOTIVATION!!!! (great idea!)