Archives for 2006
Journal Entries for 2010
Journal Entries for 2009
Journal Entries for 2008
Journal Entries for 2007
Journal Entries for 2006
Journal Entries for 2005
Journal Entries for 2004
Journal Entries for 2003
|
|
January
03: Not So Unforeseen Consequences of Being Absent From Class Too Often
(0 comments)
04: The Trouble with Communicating Only When There's Trouble
(0 comments)
05: The Pros and Cons of Conveniences in Lecturing
(0 comments)
06: Not Just About Insistence But Finding The Right Things to Insist On
(0 comments)
07: For Better or Worse, In Sickness and Health, In Honors and Failures
(0 comments)
09: What I'm NOT Teaching This Term
(0 comments)
10: Not Just For Science and Engineering Again
(0 comments)
11: Changing Parts of The Robot Class
(0 comments)
12: Evolution of the General Science Requirement
(0 comments)
13: How Machines Count
(0 comments)
14: All In the Name of Putting Up Appearances and Immortality in Photos
(0 comments)
16: Coordinating Laboratories That Are Used By More Than One Group of People
(0 comments)
17: A Laboratory Nears Maximum Use
(0 comments)
18: Different Ways of Operating on Numbers
(0 comments)
19: Classroom Seat Musical Chairs Up to the Second Week of the Term
(0 comments)
20: Like Repeating the Whole Board Exam Even if You Passed Some Subtests
(0 comments)
21: Talking About Web Presence/s This Time
(0 comments)
23: Students Wanting Things To Their Advantage Just Because They Weren't There When the Rules Were Given
(0 comments)
24: It's The Teacher's Dilemma Too If He Continues With the Lecture Knowing the Students Didn't Get the Previous Topic
(0 comments)
25: When Teachers to Subjects Aren't Certain Even on the Third Week of Classes
(0 comments)
26: When Students' Wounds Run Deep
(0 comments)
27: Propagating the Belief of Absorption by Repetition
(0 comments)
28: Thirty Six Months of Details
(0 comments)
30: When A Teacher Welcomes Questions In Class
(0 comments)
31: Modification Is One Path of Creativity
(0 comments)
February
01: Blurring the Line of Fantasy and Possibility
(0 comments)
02: Replacing Another Teacher Has The New Teacher Adjusting As Much As the Students
(1 comments)
03: Are There Instances When Contingency Measures Should Only Be Taught After Things DO Go Wrong?
(0 comments)
04: Students' Ideas For Improving Existing Robots
(0 comments)
06: Adjusting For Students Who Were Absent In the Previous Lecture
(0 comments)
07: When Books Relied Upon Aren't Reliable
(0 comments)
08: Again Expanding Basic Concepts Discussed In Class
(0 comments)
09: When One Subject Needs Advanced Learning In Another Subject
(0 comments)
10: The Dilemma Having Both Accelerated and "Decelerated" Students In One Class
(0 comments)
11: Insisting On Proper Documentation For Students' Projects
(0 comments)
13: It's The Slightly Problematic That Cry Out Louder
(0 comments)
14: Thinking of New Policies For the Science Lab
(0 comments)
15: Design Changes Are A Part Of Life
(0 comments)
16: A Teacher Looking For "Real Life" Examples
(0 comments)
17: Putting Theory Into Practice
(0 comments)
18: Showing Off The Students' Mechanical Creations
(0 comments)
20: Unintentional Change of (Lesson) Plan
(0 comments)
21: Taking the Robot Challenges to the Next Level
(0 comments)
22: The Lecture Class Slowing Down to Keep Pace with the Lab
(0 comments)
23: Adding Another Digit of Accomplishment
(0 comments)
24: Fast Work or Good Work: The Teacher Has to Prioritize
(0 comments)
25: Trial And Error Being Applied
(0 comments)
27: When Systems Specifications Aren't So All Encompassing
(0 comments)
28: The Quest for Better School Laboratory Equipment Continues
(0 comments)
March
01: Adjustments Made to Deadlines and Specifications, Just Like In A Real Job
(0 comments)
02: Too Comfortable to the Point of Losing Respect
(0 comments)
03: When "Lessons" Are Divided Among the Students
(0 comments)
04: Students Forgetting Past Lessons
(0 comments)
06: When A Teacher Opens A Window He Closes A Door
(0 comments)
07: A Teacher Learning A Lesson One Term After the Fact
(0 comments)
08: Like Stage Mothers Getting First Night Performance Jitters
(0 comments)
09: Studying The Insides of Everyday Things
(0 comments)
10: Making the Most Out of One Time Learning Opportunities
(0 comments)
11: On The Way To Becoming Maze Experts, Theoretically
(0 comments)
13: Easy-Looking Tests Are Difficult And Vice Versa
(0 comments)
14: A Teacher's Leniency Has A Tendency to be Abused
(0 comments)
15: Duration of Project Greater Than Difficulty of Task?
(0 comments)
16: Teaching the Students Not to Think Sequentially
(0 comments)
17: Showing the Students the Heartbeat of the Computer
(0 comments)
18: A New Robot Task At Last
(0 comments)
20: Lecture As Supplement to Lab and Not The Other Way Around
(0 comments)
21: Other Problems of Working From Scratch
(0 comments)
22: Should A Teacher's Assignment Adjust to the Capability of the Class or The Other Way Around?
(0 comments)
23: When All The Students Look Like They Are Underachieving
(0 comments)
24: Is It Wrong To Ask The Students For A Little Intuition?
(0 comments)
25: Signs of the End - Of the Term
(0 comments)
27: Last Minute Efforts In The Students... Again
(0 comments)
28: Counters: One Step Down From And An Integral Part of Computers
(0 comments)
29: Mixing Academic Drive With Blood Lust
(0 comments)
30: Some Lessons That The Students Have Not Learned Despite Practice
(0 comments)
31: The Need for Constant Improvement In The Face of Changing Challenges
(0 comments)
April
01: Will The Students Adapt To A Change in Teaching Pace?
(0 comments)
03: More Ways The Students Get Around the Rules - Or Try To Unsuccessfully
(0 comments)
04: Do The Students Have a Right to Complain When They Didn't Know What They Were Getting Into?
(0 comments)
05: Last Minute Instead of Term Long Effort
(0 comments)
06: Looking for More Effort On the Part of the Students to Win and Get High Grades
(0 comments)
07: Giving Clues As To The Exam
(0 comments)
08: Students Not Taking What Is Given To Them
(0 comments)
10: The Reward System Not Working Perfectly
(0 comments)
17: Making It Easy For Students Who Arrive On Time - If They Arrive At All
(0 comments)
18: Students Should Know Second Chances Aren't As Easy As The First
(0 comments)
22: Immediately Wanting to Improve Things For Next School Year
(0 comments)
24: Giving The Students Chopsticks When They Expect to be Spoonfed
(1 comments)
25: When Third Chances Are Given With Pre-Conditions
(0 comments)
26: Slacking Off May Pay Off For The Moment, But Not In The End
(0 comments)
27: Not Knowing If My Students Passed Or Not
(0 comments)
28: Twice The Begging As Before To Up Just One Grade
(0 comments)
29: New Grading System Not In Favor of the Students Or the Parents
(0 comments)
May
02: Irreversible Consequences to Students' Actions - Or Inactions
(0 comments)
04: Not Rewarding Non Exemplary Student Behavior
(0 comments)
05: Good Class Behavior Equals Good Organizational Work Skills
(0 comments)
06: Analyzing Attendees Before and During the Training
(0 comments)
08: Admitting Ignorance Among Leaders Isn't Weakness
(0 comments)
09: The Students Should Run the Show
(0 comments)
10: Even People In The Real World Can Change Their Minds
(0 comments)
11: I Might Not Do Justice to Introducing My Co-Teachers
(0 comments)
12: Gut Reactions
(0 comments)
15: Some Emerging Patterns In Teaching for the Past Year
(0 comments)
16: Things New and That Don't Change for the New School Year
(0 comments)
17: Imperfect Implementation of Important Policies
(0 comments)
18: More Loopholes in the School Enrollment System
(0 comments)
19: Giving the Students A Tastes of the Work Life
(0 comments)
20: The Declining State of Educational Institutions in the Country
(0 comments)
22: Discriminating Among the Students This Early
(0 comments)
23: Still Getting Used to the One Lecture-Lab Grade System
(0 comments)
24: Getting More Students Than We Counted For
(0 comments)
25: Not As Ready For The "Real World" As The Students Thought They Were
(0 comments)
26: When What the Teachers Want Takes Second Stage to What The Students Need
(0 comments)
27: How Long My Lectures Would Last Without Numerical Representations
(0 comments)
29: Having To Deal With Students' Prior and Sometimes Incomplete Knowledge
(0 comments)
30: Facilitating Easier Requirements For the Students
(0 comments)
31: More Musical Classrooms
(0 comments)
June
01: I'm Over-Over-Loaded
(0 comments)
02: The Consequences of Always Having Hi-Tech Educational Facilities
(0 comments)
03: Student Performance Concerns and Apathy
(0 comments)
05: Students Working With Their Hands and Minds
(0 comments)
06: How Students React to Rewards
(0 comments)
07: Proof of Comprehension of Concepts Are Applications When the System Is Turned On Its Side
(0 comments)
08: Seeing the Students Get Their Parents' Money's Worth in Classes Paid and Attended
(0 comments)
09: Accelerated Students and Stalled Lessons
(0 comments)
10: Trying to Oil The Students' Mental Gears Rusted From Disuse
(0 comments)
13: Foresight and Efficiency of Engineering Students, or How They Should Be
(0 comments)
14: More Middle of the Term Adjustments
(0 comments)
15: Some of My Old Students Adjusting to My New Class Policies
(0 comments)
16: Having Poker-Faced and Non-Active Students
(0 comments)
17: Not Telling The Students When They've Worked Enough
(0 comments)
20: One Big Room Giving Way To Several Smaller Rooms Eventually
(0 comments)
21: Catching Up On Lessons and Assignments That My Students Have to Do
(0 comments)
22: Tolerance Thinner The More Time This Student's Around
(0 comments)
23: Building On Previous Topics Making the Lecture Faster
(0 comments)
24: Assumptions Made About Engineering Class Necessities
(0 comments)
26: Behind the Faculty Room Door Scenes
(0 comments)
27: The Teacher's Methods of Confirmation of Comprehension
(1 comments)
28: If The Students Ask Questions, The Teacher Won't Rush to the Advanced Topic
(1 comments)
29: Are Exams Better Scheduled From the Start of the Term?
(0 comments)
30: Giving Bread To Those (Students) Who Only Have Soup
(0 comments)
July
01: Difficult Exams Early In the Term, Then Becoming Easier
(0 comments)
03: What to Do With Students With Accelerated Work
(0 comments)
04: Maybe I Should Ask The Students How They Understand A Concept Before Clarifying To See If They Were Listening
(0 comments)
05: Lecture About All Concepts First, Then All Examples Afterwards?
(0 comments)
06: Do I Want The Best Type of Submission From the Student or Just Ones Passed On Time?
(0 comments)
07: A Time to Copy and A Time to Listen
(0 comments)
08: In Math and Engineering, Concepts May Appear In More Than One Subject
(0 comments)
10: Clarifying Verification of Theoretical and Experimental Values
(0 comments)
11: Not So Impartial Benchmarks
(0 comments)
14: Reinforcement of Previous Topics in Class
(0 comments)
18: When Lectures Become Just Second Priority
(0 comments)
19: Excuses Teachers May Make For Visible Mistakes
(0 comments)
20: Reverse Snobbery?
(1 comments)
21: Practice Apparently Still Makes Perfect - Scores, At Least
(0 comments)
22: Making Full Use of the Engineering Laboratory Time
(0 comments)
24: When the Lesson is A Review to Some But Completely New to Others
(0 comments)
25: So Much For Teaching The Students Responsibility
(0 comments)
26: Using More Than Equations in Problem Solving
(0 comments)
27: Meta Academic Concerns Cut Into Class Time
(0 comments)
28: Discouraging Students Not Paying Attention to the Lecture
(0 comments)
29: Not Fine Arts, But Might As Well Be - Maybe Coarse
(0 comments)
31: Adapting to A Different Procedure than What's In the Manual
(0 comments)
August
01: Students Asking For An Arm When Being Spoonfed
(0 comments)
02: People Might Be More Analytic When Reviewing Topics
(0 comments)
03: Complications Compounding In the Lab Set-Up
(0 comments)
04: Applications Bleeding Between Subjects the Students Are Taking
(0 comments)
05: Showing the Students Two "Roads" to a Goal and Letting Them Choose
(0 comments)
07: Ending the Experiments on an Easy Exercise
(0 comments)
08: Classes Dependent on External Factors That Are Unrealiable Such as Electricity
(0 comments)
09: A Student as the Center of One Universe
(0 comments)
10: The "Easy Way Out" Philosophy Showing In Students' Questions
(0 comments)
11: Is There A Minimum Requirement for the Students to Learn or Accomplish Per Class Period?
(0 comments)
12: The Limit of When the Teacher Has to Do Something About The Students Not Studying Enough - Or At All
(0 comments)
14: Double Grades for Doubly Important and Doubly Applied Concepts Learned
(0 comments)
15: Why Sometimes Second Classes Perform Better than First Ones
(0 comments)
16: Contrast Between Visual and Mathematical Acuity
(0 comments)
17: Students Doing Only The Least Effort, and Not Fast Enough
(0 comments)
18: Accomodating Both Spatial and Numerical Thinkers
(0 comments)
22: Choosing Between What the Student Knows Best and What's Easiest to Remember
(0 comments)
23: Comparing Students to Bart Simpson and the Hamster
(0 comments)
24: The Point Where The Teacher Stops Being Friend and Starts Being the "Enemy"
(0 comments)
25: Concepts the Students Should Know Backward and Forward by the End of the Term
(0 comments)
26: Too Many Examples Maybe A Little Too Late
(0 comments)
28: Won't You Come Into My Parlor with Clay Animation and Robots
(0 comments)
29: Could Be Subconscious Golden Rule Implementation
(0 comments)
30: The Difference Between What the Seller and the Buyers Think Is Cool
(0 comments)
31: Losing Steam In Waiting Days to Finish My "Angry" Tale
(0 comments)
September
01: When A Student Cannot Adapt to New Situations
(0 comments)
02: A Student Who May Believe Teachers Are Public Servants
(0 comments)
04: When A Student Is Organized In A Way Opposite A Teacher's Direction
(0 comments)
05: A Student Wanting An Easier Time Studying
(0 comments)
06: No Working Around Previously Set Limits
(0 comments)
07: It Takes More Work to Eventually Get Less Work
(0 comments)
08: Drop, Stop and Re-Enroll
(0 comments)
09: When Seniors Don't Feel the Weight of Responsibility
(0 comments)
11: What's the Portent on Starting on the Anniversary of a Tragedy?
(0 comments)
12: As Usual, Still Not Standing of Solid Ground on the First Week of Classes
(0 comments)
13: What Do Students Think of Teachers Who Lecture During the First Meeting?
(0 comments)
14: It's Like I Have One Continuous Class All Week
(0 comments)
15: Giving Short Task Completion Times with Secret Extensions
(0 comments)
16: Looking Up At the Teacher Heirarchy
(0 comments)
18: A Non-Declinable Substitution "Request"
(0 comments)
19: The Need to Use Technology to Focus the Students' Concentration
(0 comments)
20: Teachers Reuse Strategies Until They Fail to Work or Something Is More Efficient
(0 comments)
21: Compensating for Potential Student Laziness
(0 comments)
22: When Not to Follow A Textbook's Examples
(0 comments)
23: It's Like Having A Marathon of A Whole Season of A TV Show
(0 comments)
25: Don't Want to be A Lesson Plan Nazi
(0 comments)
26: Throwing the Text Out the Window In Favor of Sequential Learning
(0 comments)
27: Testing The Limits of the Trial and Error Method
(0 comments)
29: Showing the Rest of the School that Engineering Students Have Interesting Outputs Too
(0 comments)
October
02: Giving the Students A Choice From Several Relatively Difficult Exam Types
(0 comments)
03: Fewer Teachers, More Classes
(0 comments)
04: Making A New Type of Exam to Give to My Students
(0 comments)
05: Students' Bad Habits Compounding Regretful Commissions and Omissions
(0 comments)
06: Higher Education Answering to a Higher Calling
(0 comments)
07: Not As Resourceful Students As I Thought
(0 comments)
09: Some Crucial Concepts Not In the Students' Plan of Study
(0 comments)
10: More Detailed Computer Manipulation Revealed
(0 comments)
11: Learning to Read the Computer's Indicators
(0 comments)
12: Analyzing the Cause and Effect on Machines
(0 comments)
13: Students Trying to Get Points That Can't Be "Paid" For
(0 comments)
14: Giving the Students The Means to Communicate with Machines in Ones and Zeroes
(0 comments)
16: When A Recommendation Is Seen As A Threat
(0 comments)
17: Bosses Detect An Undertone That Wasn't There
(0 comments)
18: Emphasize One Concept and The Students Stumble on Another
(0 comments)
19: How Students Find Out What Parts of Their Circuit Are Working or Not
(0 comments)
20: Students Needing to Learn to Work within the Limits Given
(0 comments)
21: It's Like An A.P.B. Among Teachers of Notorious Student M.O.
(0 comments)
23: The Teacher Needing To Allow Different Solutions to Achieve the Task
(0 comments)
24: Performing Reverse Engineering on Complete and Working Sample Programs
(0 comments)
25: Going Forward, Going Backwards, Going Sideways and Standing Still
(0 comments)
26: Do The Students Have to Be Informed about Everything?
(0 comments)
27: Small Steps (In A Computer Program) Add Up to a Long Journey
(0 comments)
30: When Students Have to Learn to Not to Treat Everything As A Joke
(0 comments)
31: The Difference Between What Students Want and What They Get
(0 comments)
November
02: Better Ways of Gauging the Better Students
(0 comments)
03: Long Class Hours, Few Real Student Accomplishments
(0 comments)
04: Student Organizations Getting Dis-Organized
(0 comments)
06: "My Soul Comes First, Before Anything Else, Including Other People"
(0 comments)
07: Assigning Major Tasks to the Students Without Passing Through Intermediate Steps
(0 comments)
08: Curve Balls That Fate Throws At Even the Most Organized Schools
(0 comments)
09: School Science Class Concerns Are My Concerns
(0 comments)
11: Third and Last Part of the Disappearing Science Teacher Dilemma
(0 comments)
13: When Something Doesn't Work, Stop Using It and Take Another Path
(0 comments)
14: A Hollywood Dark Comedy Moment
(0 comments)
15: Malingering Is Part Mal or Bad and Part Lingering
(0 comments)
16: Learner-Centered, Excellence-Centered or Subject-Centered?
(0 comments)
17: Students' Teacher in Several Subjects Should Know More Than Others Their Workload for the Term
(0 comments)
18: A Student Like A Fly Banging Against A Closed Window
(0 comments)
20: Anything for A One Hundred?
(1 comments)
21: There Are Topics From Those Subjects That Are Taken For Granted in the Next Lessons, Which Is Why They Are Called Prerequisites
(0 comments)
22: Tongue Twistiness Determines Comprehensibility
(0 comments)
23: Proper Avenues for Dialogue
(0 comments)
24: Stages in Wireless Communication?
(0 comments)
25: The Advantage of One Over Many
(0 comments)
27: Scenes Behind the Stage
(0 comments)
28: On the Home Stretch of This Trimester
(1 comments)
29: Bad Luck This Term with Science Teachers
(0 comments)
December
02: There's No Student I Know Who Will Not Check Several Times the Veracity of News of Class Suspension Until They're Satisfied
(0 comments)
04: Academic Abortions
(0 comments)
05: Even In Schools It's Possible to be Educationally Disadvantaged
(0 comments)
06: A Student Who Seems to See Only In Black and White
(0 comments)
07: Like A Driver Who Takes Over A Race Car On the Last Lap
(0 comments)
08: Adjusting the Teaching Method for Second Time Students
(0 comments)
11: Organized and Supervised Tie Strengthening Times
(0 comments)
12: Some People Not Acting Out of the Box They've Displayed for Themselves
(0 comments)
13: The Teacher Isn't Always A Student's Friend
(0 comments)
14: How Does the Teacher Give All the Breaks Without Letting Them Know So They Don't Demand for More?
(0 comments)
15: Assessing The Students' Individual Computer Skills
(0 comments)
16: Students Should Accept Their Limitations
(0 comments)
19: Students Should Not Be the Ones to Say "That's Enough Work For This Subject This Term"
(0 comments)
20: Suspicious of the Scatterbrained
(0 comments)
21: Failure on the Part of the Student and On the Part of the Teacher
(0 comments)
22: Is Christmas About Beginnings and Endings, or Ongoing Cheers?
(0 comments)
|
