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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: May 13th, 2009  Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Reminiscing | The Job.  One comment so far - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)It’s almost exactly five years since I met a class of nervous looking Y6 pupils and told them that they were going to be a brilliant form group. It’s also five years since that very same group of nervous looking students stared at me as if I was a madwoman. Where did those five years […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 30th, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: My Life | The Job. 4 comments - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)As I walked in the door my Y7 class started to cheer and applaud. I can’t say that this is something that happens to me in the course of a normal day, so I was more than a little taken aback. Then they stood up and applauded and cheered some more. Me? I just stood […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 29th, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: My Life | The Job. Comments are closedI have acquired a new in tray at school. Someone pinched the old one. Weird. It’s not really a tray, more of a blooming great plastic box, into which my students deposit their homework. Well some of them do, others prefer to leave lame excuses involving homework-eating dogs. (I originally typed that as ‘homework eating […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 5th, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: The Job. One comment so far - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)I’ve been fortunate to have a few of those ‘wow’ moments in my lessons last week, but I can’t claim that all of them were the result of anything that I’d planned. I knew I’d get a ‘wow’ when I used our hand held voting keypads for the first time. These are similar to the […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 2nd, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: My Life | The Job. Comments are closedToday marked the end of my annual Easter Egg Hunt puzzle competition thingy, so I duly headed off to Asda, purveyors of the cheapest multibuy special offer chocolate ovoids that money can buy. I am amazed to discover that the eggs are consideraly cheaper than in previous years, probably largely as a result of a […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 20th, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: The Job. Comments are closedThe Super Good Days have been turning up at a most amazing rate recently. Today was another splendid example: a trip to The Deep, courtesy of Create Maths, with a small group of Y9 students to take part in a maths event. We followed a maths trail around The Deep in which we looked for […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 19th, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Random Musings | The Job. 5 comments - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)It could have happened a few weeks ago, when I taught several classes how to look critically at websites. Given that I’m a cheapskate who hides bits and pieces for this site in the domain that I run for my students, there were plenty of trails of Smarties to follow that would lead them back […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 13th, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Quotes and Quips | The Job. One comment so far - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)Yesterday I asked my Y11 group to make sure that they arrived to this morning’s lesson with at least one bad joke each. Well it is Red Nose Day. Russ turned to his soon to be ex-best mate and said “I’ll turn up with you.” Ooh. Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 12th, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: The Job. 3 comments - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)I’ve had such a good day. We’ve all seen the Hollywood movie approach to education. You know the plot: an idealised teacher takes a bunch of not terribly enthusiastic kids, wins them over and (just in time for the end of the movie) transforms them into a class of engaged and motivated students. Did I […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 10th, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Maths | Random Musings | The Job. One comment so far - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)This morning, by way of a little light relief after the rigours of their GCSE exam yesterday, I set my Y9 group the task of researching pi and Pi Day in order to make some posters for display. They made some brilliant posters. My favourite was the one from which I discovered that ‘Pi Day […] |
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