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[Capergirl]

Do you have any personal habits that annoy or simply pique the curiosity of your students? My students seem overly concerned by my coffee consumption. In fact, I rarely show up without a coffee in hand when I have a class. "Not healthy!" they will bark, fingers wagging. I also have a tendency to wear shoes with thick heels, which make a nice clip-clop sound as I march down the hallway of the university. I often hear "we knew it was you...we heard you coming".

Ah well, at least I don't chomp on gum or crack my knuckles while I am teaching.

[Glenski]

Perhaps this is too mundane, but whenever I try to get answers from my Japanese HS students in small groups, there is always someone who can't/won't speak English at all. If I show a squeamish face on his vain attempts to use Japanese, someone in the group will mimic me simply by telling that student, "In English, please".

[johnslat]

My only bad habit in the classroom is thinking I have no bad habits.
Regards,
John

[Will.]

Treating the classroom as a podium for my pet theories...

[zaneth]

Too many quirks to mention (and maintain any shred of anonymity that I have left on this board). I doubt if I could be more noticeable by painting myself green. I am eminently caricaturable, sometimes caricatured.

[Louis]

Throwing chalk around. When a piece breaks, or is simply too short to be used, I throw it. Keeps em attentive... Also, sometimes *gasp* leaving before the bell rings!

[anthyp]

My most interesting personal habit has gotta be my infamous temper, which I seem to lose every other week in spectacular fashion. Nah, just kidding, though I get angry often enough, and show it, which is something my students' Chinese teachers don't really do. I'm working on the temper thing, but seriously, folks, these kids behave like animals sometimes.

[willy]

I talk too much and have no problem with hitting my students, but maybe its not hard enough they just laugh

[Teacher Lindsay]

Can I hijack this thread, turn it around 180 degrees, and at the same time turn it into something more interesting than the OP's (no names, don't want to be accussed of another personal attack) original subject?

Students' bad habits.

I teach high school students, 80 per class (some classes have grown to 84 during the term), ranging in age from 13 to 17. They're uncouth little buggers.

Ranked in order of frequency;

1 - Picking their noses.

2 - Passing books, pens and what-not to each other by throwing them across the room.

3 - Combing their hair (although this stopped shortly after I began confiscating combs).

4 - Spitting on the classroom floor.

5 - Farting. 3 or 4 times each class I observe a cluster of students fanning their faces with their books. When I queried students at the beginning of the term they informed me, nonchalantly, that someone had farted.

6 - Squeezing pimples & blackheads.

Cheers

[Ludwig]

'Teacher' Lindsay', andere L�nder, andere Sitten.

Since you have elsewhere referred to Christianity, let me pass a quote past you.

"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgement you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?

Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye?

Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye".

(Matthew 7:1-5.)

You have exposed yourself as a troll.

[Bindair Dundat]

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[VanKen]