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Showing entries for Category: AP
Student Quote of the Day
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The test all my students have been preparing for was yesterday, and I heard from a few of them last night via email. My favorite comment about the three-hour Advanced Placement test came from Katharine, an excellent student who will ace the exam: I'm pretty sure that majority of the students I know who slept through the exam were not any of your students!! Ha, they took to heart your advice to "check your work and write some more." |
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The Test is OVA!
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| (The "OVA" is an in-joke for those of you who watch Iron Chef on the Food Network.)The Advanced Placement English Literature test is officially over for 2008 and several of my 148 students stopped by to tell me:"the second essay was impossible""the... Read More |
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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... Read More |
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Leave No Grilled Cheese Behind
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| Yesterday was a day of "last" things. It was the last class before the AP test with many of my students, it was the last after school session where I cook and review simultaneously, and it was my last May 1 as a high school teacher. (Next... Read More |
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An Untypical Day in the Life of a Teacher
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| I am knackered, pooped, exhausted--this may be my most difficult day in 33 years of teaching. What did I do?OK, let's start with my mild insanity, which I am the first to admit. I have decided this year--because it may be my last h.s. teaching year--to... 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 |
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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