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January
05: New Year, New Subjects, Same Old Students
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06: Science That Kids Can Push and Pull
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07: When the Teacher's Job Extends Well Into The Weekend
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10: The "Natural" Order of Teachers
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11: The Shifting Sand Dunes of Teaching Appointments
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12: A Teacher From the Clones
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13: Forcing the Students to Have Fun with Science
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14: Filling In The Gaps of The Students' Incomplete Stock Knowledge
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15: The Importance of Recaps in Enhancing Students' Comprehension
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17: Showing The Students The Paths Along Which They Should Think
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18: Now I Know Why Some Teachers Choose to Accelerate Bright Students Not Out of the Goodness of Their Hearts
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19: Teaching by Application, a.k.a. "Spoonfeed Your Own Darn Self"
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20: Giving the Students' Options of How to Answer Exams
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21: Taking Advantage of What the Students Are Good At
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22: When the Torch of the Students' Knowledge is Passed Low on the Fuel of Previous Lessons
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24: Teachers Can Teach and Err
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25: Race Officials Want Us to Drive Not Well Oiled Machines
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26: One of the Rare Times I See I'm Not Constantly Hitting A Brick Wall
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27: Turning the Teacher's Mistakes into Opportunities for Students
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28: Two Years Writing From Fourteen Years' Teaching
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31: From the Heights of Technological Education Back to the Roots, Literally
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February
01: More Interactive Science Ideas
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02: When the Students' Creative Dam Breaks
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03: Sometimes Ideas from Students Just Needs A Little Push In the Right Direction
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04: Teaching The Same Lesson After The Students Have Learned Some More
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05: Showing the Students More Than One (Not Necessarily As Easy) Way of Solving A Problem
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07: When A Previous Lesson I Taught Ties In to the Current One
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08: A Student Displays Blinding Ambition
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09: Wanting to Protect the School's Integrity and Reputation
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10: Showing The Students Their Common Mistakes
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11: Trying to Get the Students to See Beyond Recognizing Repeated Examples
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12: An Example of The Hastily Built House Upon The Sand
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14: Ways I Make My Work and the Students' Easier
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15: Not Wanting to Reward the Students' Mediocrity
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16: The Brooklyn Bridge Has Been Sold On Lesser Convincing Promises
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17: Speaking Softly While Keeping A Firm Grasp on the Gate
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18: My Students In More Than One Subject This Term, and Several More Before
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19: A Believer in the Last Ditch Eleventh Hour Effort Put Up By the Students
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21: Lectures I Gave That Are Math Based, And Not
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22: Running Around the High Chair Before Feeding The Baby
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23: Should I Give More Points and More Items to Topics The Students Find Easy?
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24: Cooperation and Altercations Between the Students
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26: The Modern Fable of the Bullies Against the Nerd
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28: School Yard Politics
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March
01: Letting The Students Speak For Themselves
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02: The Majority of Our Students Speak
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03: Analyzing the Students' Decisions
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04: Watching the Waves Crumble the Castle on the Sand
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05: When Teachers Latch Their Dreams to the Students Worse Than Parents Do
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07: The Courtesy of Allowing Someone to Save Face
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08: Knowing When the Students Are Overworked
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09: Allowing My Students to Make Full Use of the Tools Afforded by the School
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10: Showing the Students the Full Power of Computers in Learning
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11: Reusing Teaching Methods That Work
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12: When Students Have Unrealistic Views About Their Class Standing
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14: No Rest For the Serious Among My Students
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15: You Give Teaching A Bad Name
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16: When My Subject Is Set Aside By The Students For "More Important" (and Fun) Matters
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17: There's No Suspense When the Whole Solution Is Already Written on the Board While the Teacher Lectures
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18: More Excuses For the Students to Get Out of My Classes
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19: When Students Ask For Assurances That They Will Be Excused From Classes, Not the Other Way Around
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21: Making The Machines of War
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22: The Last Time I Do Something Until The Start of Next Trimester
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23: Subliminal Cues That Make Students Resist When Asking Them Questions In Class
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28: Meta Teaching Concerns
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29: Teaching Outside the Classroom Again
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30: Catching Conspicuous Cheaters in Class
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31: Letting The Students Think They Are Getting Away With It So They Don't Come Up With New Tactics
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April
01: Pay-For-Grade Gets Foiled
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02: Teaching Adherence To Rules With Flexibility
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04: When A Topic In Class Requires Previous Knowledge of Another Discipline
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05: When An Indifferent Decision Is Seen As a Great Kindness
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06: Last Lectures for the Term
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07: When the Servant Becomes The Master
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08: Achieving Peace Through Fighting Machines
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11: Students Telling On Fellow Slacking Students
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12: Choreographing A Dance I'm Not There To Watch
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13: Using The Fact That Students Talk To Each Other After Exams To My Advantage
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14: Low Capacity Human Memory At A Young Age To Forget Activities From The Month Before?
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15: Methods of Teaching I'm Only Learning Now
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16: The Teacher Gives One Last Consideration To Absentees
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18: The Consistent Attitude of Consistent Failing Students
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19: Mimicking Workplace Situations For the Students to Learn From
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20: Judgment Day, First of Three For This Year
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21: More Successes and Failures For The Recently Concluded Term
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22: Practical Applications of Engineering Achievements of the Students
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23: When The School Administrators' Concerns Are Sidewise Evident
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25: Not Passing the Torch of Education, But Helping Spread the Light and Warmth Nonetheless
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26: Seeing the Hills and Valleys Ahead for the Next Term
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27: Students Who Think They Are - But Aren't - Invincible
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28: The Rules The School Sets And the Students Who Don't Follow Them
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29: Cutting Certain School Ties
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30: Like A Proud Parent Letting My Hatchlings Leave The Nest
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May
03: Non-Graduates In, Non-Graduates Out
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04: The Wrong Time To Approach A Teacher For Help
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05: Passing The Subject By The Seat of Their Pants
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06: Students Asking To Change Subjects For A New Reason
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07: Conflicts: Between Students and Parents, and Teachers and Concessionaires
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09: More Running After Passing Grades By A Student
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10: Leaders Leading Would Be Student Leaders
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11: A Student Effort That I'm Glad Failed, and An Ongoing One I Wish to Succeed
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12: Placing The Students In A Pretend World Where They Could Fail Without Consequence
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13: The Students' "Nightmare" Coming True About Being Trapped In School And The Life Force Being Drained Out of Them
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14: Knowing When The Students Cannot Achieve A Goal And Compromising Gracefully
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16: A Way To Get The Students Lively Again After A Sleepless Night
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17: Having An Idea of the Events for the School Year Ahead
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18: Rewarding Exemplary Student Behavior
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20: Ironing Out Some Instructions That The Students Are Supposed To Follow
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21: Students I Foresee Who Will Put Forth Minimum Effort Again
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23: New School Year, New Students, New Problems
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24: Hopefully the Wonder and Appreciation of Science and the Outdoors Doesn't End With the Camp for the Students
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25: When Students Who Excel Are Always Grouped with Slower Learners
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26: Students Apparently Rub Off On Teachers Too
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27: Other Than The Usual, Teaching Something I Love
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28: More Classroom Musical Chairs
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30: I'm Teaching A New Subject For the First Time Again This Term
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31: Peppering My Lectures With A Lot of Numbered Instructions
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June
01: Some Minor Points About the First Week In the Classes I Taught
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02: When My Students Don't Listen to Me But Just Follow the Notes on the Board
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03: For Once I Have Students Who Aren't Opportunistic to Cut Class
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04: When I Think My Students Are Too Used To Being Spoonfed
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06: My Hat As Academic Adviser Stays On
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07: I Hear My Students (And A Former Student) Speak Up
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08: My Teaching Strategies or The Quality of Students: Something's Improving
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09: Two Days of Teaching In One Post
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10: Allowing The Students To Think And Speak Freely
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11: I Spawn A Child and How Requirements We Force On The Students Disrupt The Market
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14: Believing Too Much In My Students' Abilities
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15: Wanting To Keep Requirements Easy For My Students
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17: A Lifetime's Worth of Reading and Watching Made Useful to One Class I Help Teach
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20: What Do I Do With A Student Who Asks To Get Out Of My Class Early?
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21: Like We DID Group The Smart Students Together And I Was Asked To Handle Their Class
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22: I Clone My "Child" and Some Exam Dilemmas
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23: Exam Behavior I Disapprove Of From My Students
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24: My Students Perform Their First Experiment For The New Schoolyear
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25: Guiding My Students Through Difficult to Track Paths of Thinking
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27: This Teacher's Basic Prevention Measures Against Cheating
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28: When I Need Last Minute Visual Aids For My Lecture
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29: Sometimes This Teacher Believes (Incorrectly) That I Don't Have To Spell Things Out Completely
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July
01: Taking Longer To Teach Now Than Before
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02: Getting The Students More Involved in the Learning Process
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04: Showing My Students Both the Rough and Paved Paths, And Letting Them Choose
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05: A Class Where I Don't Know Where The Students' Questions Will Be Coming From
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06: Listing for the Students All Possibilities, And What They Should Do Then
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07: Making the Students Solve Problems, Assembly Line Style
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08: The Teacher Performing Trial and Error Along with the Students
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09: The Students Cut Corners In Their Schoolwork And Pay For It
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11: When Students Ask For Hints and Extensions
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12: Making the Students Lose the Illusion of Pseudo-Elitism
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13: The Danger of Students Settling For The Lowest Passing Grade
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14: When A Subject's Unfair Reputation Prevents The Students From Learning
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15: The Students Have the Right to Demand, But With Consequences
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18: Trying to Streamline Enrollment Procedures
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19: Wanting to Stop The Students from Practicing Their Whims
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20: United The Students Stand, But In This Case United They Fall Also
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21: Again, A Situation When the Students Seem to Be Missing the Point
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22: Dissuading Student Strategies for Doing Less Work
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23: Counting the Teacher's Mistake(s) to the Students' Benefit
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26: When Students Are Too Eager To Embrace New - If Wrong - Concepts
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27: An Instance That A Student Doesn't Know When to Stop With The Requests
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28: Computers Come In Handy For Generating Math Problems
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29: A Lively Classroom Discussion About Things That Only Simulate Life
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30: Foreseeing the Needs of the Students' Post Requisite Subjects
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August
01: Again, The Students Decide Towards An Easier Task For Themselves
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02: Would The Students Be More Careful With School Equipment If They Donated Them?
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03: When I Try To Stop the Students From Keeping on Winging It
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04: The Students Need to Believe In the Skills They Already Have
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05: Hoping the Students Would Think That One Side of the Box Is Connected to Another, If Not Out of the Box Altogether
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08: Trying to Prove the Point to the Students About Not Studying
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09: Wrong Instructions From the Teacher Result In Wrong Output
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10: In the Classroom, Familiarity (with the Subject) Breeds Speed
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13: Should Topics In the Lecture Really Be Introduced in the Lab First Hands On or Vice Versa?
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15: When Students Are Told Not To Do Things By the Book
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16: Some of the Last Lectures for the First Term
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17: When The Students Accept the Illusion of Being Assigned Less Work
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18: A Full Day in the Classroom And Outside
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19: Not Allowing The Students To Waste My Time
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20: Students Not Wanting To Walk Before They Could Run
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22: More Preparation I Gave My Students Leading Up To the Finals, When The Whole Term Should Be Preparation Enough Leading Up to the Finals
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23: When The Teacher Finds Out What The Students Choose To Say They Have Learned
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24: Ironically, The Students Ask For And Get More Time to Cram
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25: When The Automatic Features of Software Used for the Purpose of Education Hinders Instead of Helps
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26: When The Concept of Grading The Students "Fairly" Becomes Just A Small Dot In the Distance
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27: Time To Think of More Action When The Expected Reaction to the First Action Fails
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30: A Student Who Makes A Court Case Out Of Each Score
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31: When Students Are Afraid To Say When They Don't Get The Lesson
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September
01: No Time to Write, More Time to Ride
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05: Students Should Know The Right Time to Ask Questions
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06: Treating My Students Like Musketeers
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07: A Story of Carelessness, Plus Speaking and Acting Before Thinking
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08: One Last Opportunity A Student Has A Chance to Exploit for the Term
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10: The Passing of A Great Teacher
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12: Unforeseen Problems In the Computerized Enrollment System
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13: When Decisions Effected In Meetings Are Not Passed on to the People Concerned
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14: Like "Dangerous Minds" Special Features
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15: An Event Marring An Otherwise Pristine New Term
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16: A Drive-By Cringing
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17: More Science and Engineering Course Introductions for the New Term
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19: More Loopholes in Students Avoiding Teachers Disliked
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20: Not Serial Teaching, This
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21: When My Schedule of Classes for the Term is Unexpectedly Finalized
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22: The Not So Solid Laboratory Classes Assigned to Me
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23: Letting the Students Work With Their Hands As Much As Their Brains
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24: An Observer Who Is Not Impartial At All
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26: Waiting for Work to be Processed
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27: Counting Chickens As They Fail To Hatch
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28: Baby Steps In Teaching Computer Lab
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29: Preparing the Students For An Exam
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30: The Students Learning By the Real Life Method of Trial and Error
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October
01: When Two of My Classes Get Rolled Into One - Almost
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03: Stumbling Blocks for the First Quiz of the Term
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04: There's No Medal For Also Ran
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05: Looking For Alternative Topics to Teach
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06: Guiding the Students Up One Step to The Next
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07: Testing the Borders of the Students' Comprehension and Innovative Thinking
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08: Requiring of the Students More Detailed Drawings
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10: More Ways Of Trying to Ensure Student Learning
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11: Instilling A Little More Discipline and The Start of Good Work Practices in the Students
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12: Taking the Electronics Laboratory Applications One Step At A Time
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13: Having the Laboratory Experiment Topic Before the Lecture Again
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14: Some Things That The Students Are and Are Not Allowed To Do
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15: Students Needing To Go Beyond What The Teacher Has Given to Complete the Task
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17: Some Strange Student Quirks
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18: Giving A Very Detailed Lesson
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19: Once More, Letting the Students Think They Are Making the Decisions
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20: Cramming Several Detailed Topics in One Session
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21: Is There Something More Besides the Teacher Saying "Do As I Do"?
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22: Why Don't The Students Reread What's Given Before Asking the Teacher Questions?
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24: Answer One of the Students' Questions, and Ask Another
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25: Tried and Tested Teaching Techniques Don't Work When The Students Change
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26: Asking Students to Think Like Robots
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27: Just When I Needed To Put The Best Possible Face Forward
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28: Getting Down to the Technical Side of Teaching
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29: When the Lecture Finally Catches Up to the Lab, after Lagging
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November
05: Early Preparations For The Term Starting In January
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07: What The Students May Not Know About Summer Classes
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08: A Teacher Like An Actor With An Ever Changing Script
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09: Learning When To Settle For Second or Even Third Best
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10: Asking the Students to Provide More Missing Perspectives
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11: Concentrating on the Procedure And Not The Applications
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12: Working Backwards From What The Answer Should Be
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14: Them Parents Not Coordinating With Us Teachers
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15: Raising the Stakes On The Students Not Getting Good Scores
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16: Trying to Simulate Real Job Conditions As Possible?
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17: Is Rote Memorization Part of Learning On Not?
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18: When Students Finish Their Work At Different Rates
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19: Students Resisting Additional Work, Even When It Is For Their Own Good
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21: To Blend In With the Crowd of A Large Class Size or Receive Special Attention In A Small Class?
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22: Exceptions To the Rules That Teachers Give
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23: More Than One Way That The Students Could Fulfill the Class Requirements
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24: A Demonstration That Learning Really Is Stacking Up
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25: Allowing the Students To Look At Things From A Different Angle
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26: Requiring Submissions from the Students of Practical Use for the School
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29: Giving the Students Training Wheels for the Imagination
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30: I Don't Want The Topics I Teach to be THAT New to the Students
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December
01: Sometimes the Students Forget Past But Important Lectures
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02: Continuing to Expand My Students' "Vision"
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03: Looking Practical Applications of Science Concepts Taught
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05: My School Of The Future
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06: What The Students Want Is Sometimes Not What They Deserve
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07: Asking The Students to Look At Things with a Different Persepective
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08: Letting the Students Find the Easiest Means To a Required End
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09: When The Students Aren't Used to Increasing Difficulty of Topics in Class
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10: The Last Topic for the Term
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13: Teachers Cannot Control What Students Absorb
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14: Final Two Regular Meetings for the Term
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15: Letting Some Benefits Be Surprises to the Students
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16: Sometimes Questions Asked By the Students for their Own Peace of Mind Have No Bearing on Anything Whatsoever
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17: What The Teacher Learned This Term
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