I used to carry many phone numbers in my head. Now there are very few.
I don't know my four children's phone numbers. They are on my contacts list in my phone!
I have put the numbers up on a database that I can access, just in case. But-- I don't *know* them. I really ought to learn them. What if my phone wasn't working and I wasn't near a computer?
BUT-- I *do* know their email addresses!
Friday, May 14, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
substitute
I work as a substitute teacher from time to time. I am working now as a substitute teacher in the Resource Room, which is the special education department here.
I have a kindergartner who has arrived with his work sheet of the __ip family of words. He is supposed to write the words. He says, he can do it himself! After asking a few times about working on it together, I finally agree. Of course you can do it yourself! I say. Let's see who can get done first. I will do my work over here (I point to the desk next to his table) and you can work there (point to his table). Who will get done first?
So I begin to write some journal entries, and he gets as busy as can be. I think we didn't do it quite right-- I think I was supposed to read the words, rather than his working on copying, but whatever. He is excited to finish his work before I finish mine!
I'm done! he exclaims.
Oh, darn! I say. I was ALMOST done! Let me see.
I check his work and find some errors. You need to fix it here, here and here, I say.
No I don't! he says.
GOOD! I say, then I can still beat you! -- and I turn away and he makes the corrections.
I'm done! he exclaims.
Let me look, I say. Oh! I say, you fixed it all! But I see you didn't put your name on it! I still have a chance!
And I turn back to my work, and he puts his name on his paper, and
I'm done! he says.
I look at his paper.
You won! I say.
I think to myself:
We won.
I have a kindergartner who has arrived with his work sheet of the __ip family of words. He is supposed to write the words. He says, he can do it himself! After asking a few times about working on it together, I finally agree. Of course you can do it yourself! I say. Let's see who can get done first. I will do my work over here (I point to the desk next to his table) and you can work there (point to his table). Who will get done first?
So I begin to write some journal entries, and he gets as busy as can be. I think we didn't do it quite right-- I think I was supposed to read the words, rather than his working on copying, but whatever. He is excited to finish his work before I finish mine!
I'm done! he exclaims.
Oh, darn! I say. I was ALMOST done! Let me see.
I check his work and find some errors. You need to fix it here, here and here, I say.
No I don't! he says.
GOOD! I say, then I can still beat you! -- and I turn away and he makes the corrections.
I'm done! he exclaims.
Let me look, I say. Oh! I say, you fixed it all! But I see you didn't put your name on it! I still have a chance!
And I turn back to my work, and he puts his name on his paper, and
I'm done! he says.
I look at his paper.
You won! I say.
I think to myself:
We won.
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