I just read an article about dealing with a mean teacher.
Maybe I can find an article about helping my child deal with the horrible special needs child in her classroom without being ostracized for standing up for herself...
Sometimes I feel like my daughter is at a disadvantage because I am a teacher in a small town. I cannot voice my opinion (about anything really) without fear of retribution solely on the premise that I am a teacher.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Saturday, September 5, 2015
War Damn Eagle!!
Friday, September 4, 2015
The worst students
So... I got in trouble for my behavior during our Google group
hang out this past Thursday evening. It was the first time I had been
successful in joining a hangout (Internet issues all summer at my house)
and I found the draw feature while the meeting was going on. I didn't
realize everyone in the meeting would be able to see what I was doing.
I
promise I meant no harm in what I was doing. I eluded to this in the post I made with the image from the Google Hangout from last week.
I am very excited to be a part of this group and I hope I
have not caused any problems for anyone. I received an email from a group member (kind of like the team-leader actually -- much more seniority in the group than I have) that berated me any my actions. I was out to eat with my husband, son and father-in-law when I received the email (not exactly what I wanted to read in the middle of my meal) two days after the meeting. I hope to be able to continue
as a part of this (in my view) prestigious group. This is what I
honestly believe God put me on this Earth for - to teach kids about computer science. I have
never been this happy as a teacher before.
I honestly hope they know I did not mean any harm, and I especially
did not mean to hinder anyone from being able to pay attention or to
receive help during the meeting (which is what I was accused of doing in the email). My personality is not that of a
"normal" teacher; I have always felt more comfortable in a programming
shop or in my computer lab at school than I ever have been in a normal
classroom.
This whole incident has caused me to feel anxiety whenever I see an email in my inbox about anything to do with the CS project from this summer. It's ridiculous and I hope it goes away soon...
I guess teachers can be the worst students sometimes...
I didn't realize until I was in my twenties that I actually love to learn. I had already graduated from college and was working as a programmer and I couldn't get enough knowledge. I would read anything and everything I could on the Internet (this was in 2001 so that net was still young but not in its infancy -- kinda like a rebellious teenager -- everything looked kinda off and CSS was just coming to the forefront of web programming which was helping everything finally become more polished and professional). Up until that point learning had been my job. I was a student and had been since I was 5 in kindergarten. I learned something new every day and I took it for granted. I never looked at it as something I should be grateful for.
Now, I am absolutely grateful that I had wonderful teachers in elementary and high school, and college. Some of the teachers that taught me are the ones I currently work with now. (Some of them are teachers I never had, and I am grateful that I didn't have to sit through them lol)
I hope that both of my children are as blessed as I was in school. Having a bad teacher can change your life. If someone doesn't believe in you, or someone is mean just for the sake of being mean, that can color your judgement of learning and can change your entire life. I want to be a positive influence. I hope I have been over the past 11 years.
Now, I am absolutely grateful that I had wonderful teachers in elementary and high school, and college. Some of the teachers that taught me are the ones I currently work with now. (Some of them are teachers I never had, and I am grateful that I didn't have to sit through them lol)
I hope that both of my children are as blessed as I was in school. Having a bad teacher can change your life. If someone doesn't believe in you, or someone is mean just for the sake of being mean, that can color your judgement of learning and can change your entire life. I want to be a positive influence. I hope I have been over the past 11 years.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Caught off guard
Sometimes people can be absolutely wonderful.
Today at lunch, a co-worker of mine made the comment that her husband was my biggest fan. I laughed and figured it was because of the pictures I post to Instagram of Si because I have had numerous people come up and talk to me about how cute and funny he is. She said that her husband and her were discussing people that had lost weight.
He told her that I was one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen.
Wow.
I didn't know what to say back to that, honestly. I was completely caught off guard. I told her to tell him that I said thank you and that he didn't need to tell his wife how pretty he thought other women were. :)
Today at lunch, a co-worker of mine made the comment that her husband was my biggest fan. I laughed and figured it was because of the pictures I post to Instagram of Si because I have had numerous people come up and talk to me about how cute and funny he is. She said that her husband and her were discussing people that had lost weight.
He told her that I was one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen.
Wow.
I didn't know what to say back to that, honestly. I was completely caught off guard. I told her to tell him that I said thank you and that he didn't need to tell his wife how pretty he thought other women were. :)
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Create PT Grade
I finally got my grade back for my aquarium program. I ended up with an 85 overall, and I can't get too upset about it because I remember being to the point that I had to just turn the thing in and stop looking at it.
Programming is something that you can build on forever. You can always make it better; you can always make the program do more; you can always make the program look better. It never ends.
Honestly, it does bother me that I didn't put forth more effort and make a perfect score or at the least make an A...
Programming is something that you can build on forever. You can always make it better; you can always make the program do more; you can always make the program look better. It never ends.
Honestly, it does bother me that I didn't put forth more effort and make a perfect score or at the least make an A...
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