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Bud Powell
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 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| Toast wrote: |
| whimsical1 wrote: |
@Toast - do you mean to say the kindergarteners in China act like .. 5 year olds!? lol.. Its ok, so do the 7th graders here!  |
Sounds like you'll be well prepared then. My mission this semester has been to stop my university level students hacking up a phlegm-wad and spitting it on the floor of the classroom. It generally happens at least once every class period. Believe it or not I'm actually making progress - they still spit the blood flecked contents of their seemingly diseased lungs onto the floor, but then proceed to half-assedly clean it up with a tissue or piece of trash from their pocket - which then gets thrown under the desk  ....baby steps and all that, though, right?
(*edit* Last semester's victory was to get the boys to stop smoking in empty classrooms with the windows open "But teacher now can no classings here!" "I know, but in 5 minutes there might be and you're in here with the windows closed smoking and they will have to study with that smell.". They now smoke in the empty classrooms with the windows open!!)
*Double edit* Apologies if my post is off-topic - I didn't read the rest of the thread. |
toast:
Are you teaching in a university that has an English major program? If so, are you teaching English majors or students who must fulfill a foreign language requirement. There's a big difference between the two. I've taught both. |
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