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(0 comments) 11: Astronomy from the Prospect of Ones and Zeros (0 comments) 12: Wide Innocent Eyes Looking Up at the Sky (0 comments) 13: Forcing the Students to Read Up on How to Feed Themselves with A Spoon (0 comments) 14: My Way of Doing Things and The Right Way to Approach Me about Suggesting Changes (1 comments) 16: Give A Man One Fish Then Teach Him to Fish, so He'll Know What He's Fishing For (0 comments) 17: Experience Is Still the Best Teacher (0 comments) 18: Plans for Work in the Summer (0 comments) 19: Do I Look Like A Purveyor of Baby Food? (0 comments) 20: Grabbing the First Shoe Instead of Waiting for It to Drop (0 comments) 21: The Circus That Will Be The Prospective Freshman Orientation (0 comments) 23: Like An Actor with Lines that Change with Time, and Lines that Don't (0 comments) 24: The Wrong Work Attitude to Show A Teacher (1 comments) 26: The 25% Solutions Manual (0 comments) 27: Delinquent (0 comments) 28: The Extent at Which Students Volunteer to Work (0 comments) March 01: Good and Bad Memories of College Teachers (1 comments) 02: Two Different Ways of Dealing with Difficulties (0 comments) 03: A Warden's Conception of Kindness May Still be Cruelty to the Convict (0 comments) 04: I Won't Give Up Even If the Students Want To (0 comments) 05: Students Wanting to Do Only the Least Amount of Work Required (0 comments) 06: I Help the Students Help Others (0 comments) 08: Incorrect Perceptions from Names and Actions (0 comments) 09: Teachers as Advisers (0 comments) 10: Looking Back at the Path Up the Mountain They've Trod (0 comments) 11: Short and Long Term Plans (0 comments) 12: Would That There Was More Wondery of Discoverment in the World (0 comments) 13: Last Minute and Not So Last Minute Changes in Plans (0 comments) 15: Aftermath of the Open Campus and College Fun Day (0 comments) 16: Seeing Someone Trying to Take the Easy Way Out (0 comments) 17: Time Enough for Learning (0 comments) 18: Adventures in Calculus (0 comments) 19: Directly Approaching the Person Concerned About Any Concerns (0 comments) 20: Preparing for Events In May and June (0 comments) 22: Following the Stars Part 1 (0 comments) 23: Following the Stars, Part 2 (0 comments) 24: Something People with Naturally Loud Voices Don't Have to Deal with (0 comments) 25: Surviving the Gauntlet in the Lab (0 comments) 26: Tests are for the Teacher to Find Out How Much the Students Have Learned (0 comments) 27: A Chilly Sideline (0 comments) 29: I Will Not Tell You What's Wrong Unless You Tell Me You Think Something's Wrong (0 comments) 31: Monday's Lectures in Detail (1 comments) April 01: A Nearly Foolproof Way of Finding Out What the Students Have Learned (0 comments) 02: The St. Catherine Wheel of a Term's Last Few Spins (0 comments) 03: Our Definition of College Rush Week: Students Scurrying to Finish All Pre-Finals Requirements (0 comments) 05: A Small Amount of Effort Everyday Goes A Long Way Towards A Student's Total Achievement (0 comments) 06: Practice and Prayer for Making Perfect (0 comments) 12: Jumping Back to the Grind Running (1 comments) 13: Bad Conclusions When Second Guessing People That Aren't Asked Directly (0 comments) 14: Evaluating How the Students Put Theory into Practice (0 comments) 15: Strict Requirements and Fair Considerations (0 comments) 16: Unmet Expectations Will Beget More Unmet Expectations (0 comments) 19: Culmination of Fourteen Weeks' Work (0 comments) 20: Not Too Old to Learn Something New (0 comments) 21: The Importance of Being Labeled (0 comments) 22: A Teacher Different From Me (1 comments) 23: Trying to Make the Next Five Months Easier (0 comments) 24: Cramming 40+ Hours of Classwork in Two and a Half Weeks (0 comments) 26: One Student Left Behind (0 comments) 30: Teaching Is In My Blood (0 comments) May 03: Panic Monday (0 comments) 04: Ordering College Subjects Like Food Off of a Menu (0 comments) 05: A Ball For A Ball (1 comments) 06: What the Students May or May Not Do And What They Should Do (0 comments) 07: Give A Man A Fish... And He'll Be Back The Next Day Asking for Another (0 comments) 08: Giving Proper Weight to the Culmination of One's Years of Studies (0 comments) 11: I Can See the Point of Light That's the End of the Tunnel (0 comments) 12: From My Imagination to the Students� Eyes (0 comments) 13: Asking Help from the Old to Welcome the New (0 comments) 17: Some People are Leaving and Others are Just Arriving (0 comments) 18: Free to Choose the Time They Go to Class - Up to a Point (1 comments) 19: Meet Me Halfway (0 comments) 22: An Event Symbolic of the Students' First Term in the School? (0 comments) 24: Once More Into the Teach (0 comments) 25: Separating the Runners from the Crawlers (0 comments) 26: More New Things After Twelve Years of Teaching (0 comments) 27: Letting the Flock Roam Because of One Claustrophobic Lamb (0 comments) 28: 20 Years of Knowledge (0 comments) 29: The Students Have the Right to Gather and to Question Others Who Gather (0 comments) 31: Our Experiences As Students Coloring Our Behavior On the Other Side of the Fence (0 comments) June 01: Dealing with the Leaders of the Pack and Everyone Else (0 comments) 02: A Belated Commemoration (0 comments) 03: State of the Institution Address (0 comments) 04: Affirming Everything That I Ask the Students to Answer (0 comments) 05: The First Major Evaluation of Comprehension for the Term (0 comments) 07: Adjustments That Have to Be Made By Students and Teachers Alike (1 comments) 08: Just Another Manic Tuesday (0 comments) 09: Opportunities for the Taking (0 comments) 10: Knowing When to Accept the Rules and When to Question Them (0 comments) 11: Some Things Never Change and Some Do Not Stay the Same (0 comments) 14: Letting People Choose Their Own Negotiators (0 comments) 15: The Source of An Easy Lecture from an Unexpected Quarter (0 comments) 16: A Teacher's Self-Censorship? (0 comments) 17: Spelling Everything Out Vs. Relying on A Certain Amount of Intuition From Those Reading Instructions (0 comments) 18: Guiding With Firm But Gentle Hands (0 comments) 19: A Mixture of Old and New Ways of Teaching (0 comments) 21: Ambiguous Student Gatherings (0 comments) 22: Students Assembling Students (0 comments) 23: Teaching Measurements of Electrons and Building Heights (0 comments) 24: Testing My Patience and Resolve (0 comments) 25: Several Delaying Tactics Teachers and Students Use (0 comments) 26: Thinking From Another Side of the Box (0 comments) 28: Not All "Sciences" Are the Same (0 comments) 29: Profit and Efficiency Oriented as Opposed to Information and Education (0 comments) 30: Pre- and Post- Exam "Mortems" (0 comments) July 01: Giving the Students Another Way of Expressing Themselves (0 comments) 02: Goodbye to A Dear Friend (0 comments) 03: When It's Right to Question the Teacher (0 comments) 05: Drawing the Line When Students As for Reconsiderations (0 comments) 06: Trying Other Means of Communication (0 comments) 07: Double Time (0 comments) 08: The Least of What Teachers Believe Students Should Do and Vice Versa (0 comments) 09: Decision by Silent Majority (0 comments) 10: The Students' and Teacher's Different Opinions on "Easy" and "Difficult" (0 comments) 12: The Teacher's Right to Change His Mind (0 comments) 13: Teacher As Gatekeeper (0 comments) 14: Changing Teaching Techniques (0 comments) 15: Discerning Students' Valid Inquiries (0 comments) 16: An Apt Analogy About A Person's "Capacity" to Learn (0 comments) 17: Good Aptitude Must be Accompanied by Right Attitude (0 comments) 19: When Personal Expression Borders on Tedium (0 comments) 20: Giving the Students Every Opportunity For High Grades (0 comments) 21: Another Way That Students Attempt to Pass Without Doing Anything (0 comments) 22: When My Generosity is Abused (1 comments) 23: Reading People From Their Test Answers (0 comments) 24: Group Behavior in Humans Like Cattle (0 comments) 26: Friday Night Party (0 comments) 27: The Lecture Catches Up with the Lab (0 comments) 28: A Compromise of Helping People Speaking Well Even If Not In Front of A Crowd (0 comments) 29: Students Trying to Take Every Advantage (0 comments) 30: Successful Exploration of Applications (0 comments) 31: Presenting More Complicated Scenarios (0 comments) August 02: Foundation Friday (0 comments) 03: Thinking They Know Better (0 comments) 04: Hoping the Students Will Master Basic Lessons (0 comments) 05: Proof That One Teacher Can Make A Mistake (0 comments) 06: Wanting Something Beyond Fair (0 comments) 07: Consequences of Lack of Preparation (0 comments) 09: More Impromptu Solving Sessions (0 comments) 10: Miles To Go Before They Finish (0 comments) 11: Letting the Students Choose Their Work (0 comments) 12: Another Error A Student Noticed (0 comments) 13: United They Flunk? (0 comments) 14: Dealing With People Other Than Headless Chickens (0 comments) 16: Improvising an Experiment (Again) (0 comments) 17: The Last Electricity and Magnetism Exam for the Term (0 comments) 18: A Few Difficult Questions or Several Easy Questions? (0 comments) 19: Cramming The Last Topics of the Term (0 comments) 20: Not Being Equally Impartial to All My Classes (0 comments) 23: When a Teacher Feels His Class is Neglected (0 comments) 24: More Signs The Students May Not Be Taking My Subject (Or Me) Seriously (0 comments) 25: My "Favorite" Student Again (0 comments) 26: Students Used to Being Spoonfed (0 comments) 27: Showing Me What They've Learned (0 comments) 28: Teaching By Example (0 comments) 30: Unused to Questions from Other Students (0 comments) 31: This Term's Crop of Failures (0 comments) September 01: Good Questions and Bad Questions (0 comments) 02: Letting the Students Learn by Failure and Repetition (0 comments) 03: Preparing the Students for the New Subjects (0 comments) 06: Expecting Special Treatment? (0 comments) 07: A Parent Pleading On the Part of His Child (0 comments) 08: A Student Given More Responsibility Than He Might Have Been Used To (0 comments) 09: Good Neighbor Bad Teacher? (0 comments) 10: Giving the Students A Little More Than They're Due (0 comments) 11: The Last Free Day of the Term Break (0 comments) 13: Learning More About How To Make Others Learn More (0 comments) 14: Students In More Than One Class (0 comments) 15: The Cycle of Teaching the Same Course After A Year (0 comments) 16: Experimenting With the Procedures in the Lab Class (0 comments) 17: Teaching A Course For the Second Time to Students Taking It For the Second Time (0 comments) 18: Giving Precise Directions on How The Students Can "Feed" Themselves (0 comments) 20: Giving The Students Second Chances to Pass (0 comments) 21: Students Prioritizing One Requirement Over Another (0 comments) 22: What The Teacher Wants and What The Students Need (0 comments) 23: In The Science Lab Again (0 comments) 24: A Time When the Teacher Has To Push Further Than Usual (0 comments) 25: Letting the Students Take Small Steps First (0 comments) 27: Taking a Break from Teaching to Watch a Movie (0 comments) 28: Fourth Hectic Day of the Trimester (0 comments) 29: Teaching How to Translate Physical Concepts to Mathematical Equations (0 comments) 30: Appropriately, Our Topic In Class was the Same as What the Students Usually Made (0 comments) October 01: Avoiding the Possibility that the Students would Say "We Weren't Taught That!" (0 comments) 02: Giving the Students The Choice How They Are Evaluated (0 comments) 04: Still Doing Ad Lib Lectures After All These Years (0 comments) 05: Giving Word Problems in Two Different Classes (0 comments) 06: Can They Also Be Called Meta-Cirrucular Activities? (0 comments) 07: Enough Practice Before Getting The Students' Feet Wet in the Lab (0 comments) 08: Uniformity for My Lab Classes' Experiments (0 comments) 09: Preparing the Students for the Tests I Know Are Ahead (0 comments) 11: Expecting Too Much Confidence From the Students Again (0 comments) 12: A Sprinkling of Minor Teaching Policies (0 comments) 13: A Partially Non-Chalkboard Session for Once (0 comments) 14: The One Eyed Teacher Leading the Blind Students (0 comments) 15: Another Installment in the Student Spoonfeeding Vs. Instilling Initiative Debate (0 comments) 16: My Apprehensions About the Student Grouping In the Lab Are Realized (0 comments) 18: Intentional Interruption of Instruction (0 comments) 19: The Trouble With Classes Taught by Different Teachers (0 comments) 20: What Happens When The Students Aren't Paying Attention (0 comments) 21: Are Topics Taken Up In Class But Not In the Test A Waste or Not? (0 comments) 22: Giving the Students More Time to Cram (0 comments) 23: Sometimes The Students Have to Hear What They're Doing Wrong (0 comments) 25: Allowances I've Made for the Students (1 comments) 26: All The Teacher Is Asking For Is A Show of Effort (0 comments) 27: Finding Out When There Will Be No Classes (0 comments) 28: When Teachers Don't Teach As Fast or Students Don't Learn As Fast in Different Classes (0 comments) 29: Do Students Learn Better If A Quiz Is Given On A Topic Before the Teacher Discusses It? (1 comments) 30: The Teacher's Task to Turn Concepts into Visual or Tangible Applications (0 comments) November 03: When the Student Works More Than Is Required (0 comments) 04: Classes Held Between Holidays (0 comments) 05: Preparing for A Class That I'm Not Teaching (0 comments) 06: The Teacher Improvises In the Middle of the Session Again (0 comments) 08: When the Students Are Practically Admitting that They Didn't Study (1 comments) 09: When The Students' Brains Start Overflowing (0 comments) 10: Do Students Like It When Topics Previously Announced to be in the Exam Aren't? (1 comments) 11: Do Students Appreciate Reviewing Recently Taken Tests? (1 comments) 12: Giving the Students All The Opportunities to Learn (0 comments) 13: Trusting That the Students Will Start to Trust Themselves to Be Capable (1 comments) 16: The Fifth Experiment in the Science Lab (0 comments) 17: What The Students Show that the Teacher Can Take As Indifference (0 comments) 18: Students Giving the Appearance that They Don't Have What It Takes to Pass (0 comments) 19: If Students Find the Homework Too Difficult, What Chance Do They Have On the Tests? (1 comments) 20: Waiting for the Students to Show that They Want To Pass (0 comments) 22: Students Trying to Run When Most of Them Could Barely Stand (0 comments) 23: The Teacher Doesn't Care If the Students' Answers Are Wrong As Long as It's THEIRS (0 comments) 24: Infectious Inactivity (0 comments) 25: Having to Deal Not Only with the Students' Varying Learning Rates, But Also with the Difference Among Their Tools (0 comments) 26: When The Student Tries To "Test" the Teacher (0 comments) 27: One Way of Teaching Computer Subjects (0 comments) 30: The Students' Last Science Lab Experiment (0 comments) December 01: Students Knowing Enough to Accept Easy Tasks (0 comments) 04: Giving the Students More Leeway As the End of the Term Approaches (0 comments) 06: Classes Getting Called Off Due to Holiday Activities and Calamities (0 comments) 07: Teachin' Sumthin' Udder Dan Book Learnin' (0 comments) 09: Computer Aided Instruction Shows Its Plumes (0 comments) 10: Unusual Concessions I've Never Given A Class Before (0 comments) 11: Rearrangements Done Because of the Suspension of Classes Last Week (0 comments) 13: Writing The Lecture At the Start of the Class or Write As I Teach? (1 comments) 14: Why This Teacher Sometimes Opts for Ineffective Ways of Lecturing (0 comments) 15: The Last Lecture Day of the Term (0 comments) 16: The Concept of Students Point-Bargaining With the Teacher (0 comments) 17: The Teacher as A Reassuring Presence of A Not So Independent Nature (0 comments) 18: When Students Are Given More Time to Study (0 comments) 20: The Students' Bad Habits Rear Their Ugly Heads (0 comments)