The best advice for new
teachers: Make friends with the custodial staff and life will always be good for you. They may be invisible to the kids, but they hear, see and report everything. A few weeks ago, the 2nd floor custodian over-heard me “bragging” to my students about how good I use to be at tether-ball. So he brought me one! What a pal! Honestly, I am not good at tetherball, (never was)....But at the time, it was a pretty good analogy for electron orbits....I wasn’t sure what I would do with his gift; then I realized that we actually have a tether-ball pole in our backyard. Todd’s just been using it for his very nerdy weather station; but he was more than happy to move his virtual wind/rain gauge thingy to the roof top, leaving me with absolutely no excuses except to go out and hit the ball around and around....and around. I am not complaining, it might just be a healthy life style change that I can live with. (for a couple of days) Besides, It's kinda fun, and as long as my opponent is shorter than me; I can win.
teachers: Make friends with the custodial staff and life will always be good for you. They may be invisible to the kids, but they hear, see and report everything. A few weeks ago, the 2nd floor custodian over-heard me “bragging” to my students about how good I use to be at tether-ball. So he brought me one! What a pal! Honestly, I am not good at tetherball, (never was)....But at the time, it was a pretty good analogy for electron orbits....I wasn’t sure what I would do with his gift; then I realized that we actually have a tether-ball pole in our backyard. Todd’s just been using it for his very nerdy weather station; but he was more than happy to move his virtual wind/rain gauge thingy to the roof top, leaving me with absolutely no excuses except to go out and hit the ball around and around....and around. I am not complaining, it might just be a healthy life style change that I can live with. (for a couple of days) Besides, It's kinda fun, and as long as my opponent is shorter than me; I can win.
SHOUT OUT ! ‘Lil'Margaret, Lil'Lisa, Lil'Lori ,Lil'Nina, Lil' Linn and all my less than 5'7 buddies. Can you come over to my place and play? I'll buy the beer!
Thank you for Choens song. It is my favorite. I still have contact with one of my custodian. Yor are right. They can make teaching easier. Tom
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