Banish Those Teacher Blues

Shandana:
Are you teaching in North America? If not, I am really impressed. Judging by the things teachers do, Pakistani schools seem to be no different from schools here.

Shandana,

Pretty accurate. May I add a few types along lines of the rumor mill?

1. Dont refer to colleagues who ``say`` they have three children and are married as ``she`` just because you suspect they are gay and are in denial.

2. If a colleague breaks a major bone during gardening, dont make little drinky drinky motions behinds their backs.

3. Dont compliment the young and of color faculty on their articulateness.

4. Do challenge all the conservative males in your dept at every given opportunity until they prove their points and dont rest on their gender and not any talent they actually had to work at. Make them work for it thus reminding them just how more qualified the more progressive of your dept tend to be.

5. Every opportunity of peer assessment can be a POSITIVE conversation! So what if the well meaning, but really annoying senior faculty member shows up late to and leaves early in your teaching evaluation and then REAMS your butt in a written form that will be placed in your file until the day you die, your Dead Poets Society schtick notwithstanding...PASTE a HUGE smile on your face, carry a legal pad and pen into her office and ask her for strategies for improving your class.

6. Dont walk into class, look at your students and say, ``God, how I hate teaching.``

7. Remind your students that Biblical, Torahnical and Quranic scripture does not a lit scholarly interpretation make...or as my friend puts it, ``If the Good Book had all the answers to everything, you wouldnt be sitting in my class, now would you?``

8. Call equally on girl students as you do boys. Give female students consistant and respectful attention.

9. Give any male students who try to flirt with you the fish eye...then give them the number of your conservative/closeted colleague.

10. Maintain to your class that, yes, you are an analytic machine. Any of those sloppy, gooey feelings they have for the text best be directed to their personal diaries...

All rules are based on true and factual info. Mostly.

Shandana -

Okay...!!!...what atrocious prose...!!!...hehehehe...!!!...I’m starting over with “The Cat in the Hat...!!!...I must have been taught by an English teacher who can’t write...!!!...as they say, with teachers like these...!!!

This piece of yours should be re-titled “Banish the Teacher”...!!!

Godot:

While we`re on the subject of bad writing allow me to point out...

that should be `what atrocious prose`, and either ... or !!!

I suggest primary level readers to improve your grasp of the language.

shandana

What an atrocious prose...!!!

An example: “nip the issues that plague them in the bud”...!!!...and another one, “bite you in the rear end.”...hehehehe...I was laughing too hard to continue...!!!

Oh, okay, maybe I should pay attention to the “genre”...!!!

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