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What Happens in the Classroom the Day Before the Test?
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It's the day before the Advanced Placement English literature exam and I have just taught my last class. What happens the day before the test? Are students nervous, attentive, eager-to-please the teacher? Maybe they are in your child's school, but that isn't the way it is at Oakton. It's not that my seniors aren't prepared to do well on the test; they are. But on this beautiful spring day, they clearly aren't feeling like one more review session before the test. Half were absent because they were taking the AP Calculus test. The half who showed up were interested in one of the following:
Good luck to all students taking end-of-year tests in any subject! 
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Endings
| Last night I taught my last Advanced Composition class of George Mason University's semester. I end the class with a paper on endings--a fitting conclusion that is always ironically juxtaposed with the reality of the last night, when half the class shows... Read More |
Fridays in the Classroom
| Fridays, Fridays.First of all, on Fridays, high school seniors--especially if the weather is nice--stay home. Not all of them, of course, but enough so that taking roll is a ten-minute activity. The Boynton cartoon "The little joys of teaching are... Read More |
Top Ten Homework Excuses
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| I tried to think of a Top Ten list of homework excuses I've gotten over the years, but my students must not have the same imagination as the math students who posted this blog.Top Ten Excuses For Not Doing Math Homework1. I accidentally divided by zero... Read More |
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Word of the Day
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| prospective--likely to come about, relating to the future This word of the day comes from my students' final exam, part of which is an... Read More |
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The way to students' hearts is through their stomachs
| Please understand; I see that I have a big hot dog on my educational blog. I have spent the afternoon cooking for students who came after school for extra AP Prep help from either my government team teacher, or from me. Hot dogs... Read More |
Word of the Day
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| pedestal--a support or base, as for a column or statue This word of the day is for students everywhere, who have adopted a substitute spelling for this word based on phonetics: pedastool. 50% of my students swear up and down that they've... Read More |
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Today's Examiner Commentary on Compromise
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| Please read today's "Viewpoint" on the lost civic virtue of compromise in the DC Examiner, written by Andrew Rys. It's a compelling and well-written essay, and----- (drum roll)--- HE'S MY STUDENT!I wish I could take credit for his intelligence... Read More |
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| turgid-- swollen, bloated, bombastic, pompousThe most useful comment I ever got on a piece of writing was when a college professor told me my writing was turgid. Within one week, I was "Strunk and White" (authors of Elements of Style) ... Read More |
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A Steep Learning Curve
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| I learned to read gradually, and my writing was pretty awful until I went to college, when I also learned to read much more carefully than I had in high school. But technology just came at me all at once in my middle age and the learning curve has been... Read More |
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Erica Jacobs
Erica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.
Erica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.
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