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April 1st, 2013 at 12:24 am
LOL!!!! kids ❤
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April 1st, 2013 at 12:24 am
love em!!!
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April 1st, 2013 at 12:24 am
it looks like a kid drew this , love it!
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April 1st, 2013 at 12:34 am
haha! that’s such a nice excuse for the real reason, which is that i’m too lazy to draw nice today!
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April 2nd, 2013 at 1:39 am
Kids + Science = hilarious!
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April 2nd, 2013 at 1:50 am
for sure!
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September 2nd, 2013 at 10:09 pm
Love that you draw/color in crayon!
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September 3rd, 2013 at 12:02 am
Crayons, pencils, sharpies, whatever’s around 🙂
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January 27th, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Hi Matt, I’ve been a substitute teacher, and also went to art school, as it happens. It’s nice to see those little moments of joy-in-learning that can happen with the kids. That was my favorite part of doing it, fostering it for the younger ones, rekindling it for the older, more jaded ones. Kudos for sharing your experiences in comic form!
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January 27th, 2014 at 6:27 pm
Thanks! I agree. Let me know if you have any good stories!
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January 28th, 2014 at 5:01 am
Asamatteroffact, I do. Favorite fun teaching activities. In my experience, there were plenty of times that there was no assignment left by the teacher or whatever was left was insulting to everyone’s intelligence. Here are a few of my favorite activities for those instances.
Tying a square knot: When I was ~20, I was rather rudely awakened to the fact that I unwittingly tied my shoes and any other kind of knot based on a ‘granny knot’. When I learned about the proper components of a ‘square knot’, I went on a mission to share this with everyone I encountered who had crooked shoelaces, of which there are many. I once estimated I shared it with about 3K people, many of them captive audiences including on the city bus, and in the classrooms while I subbed. A red lace and a blue lace demonstrate it beautifully.
Practicing math facts: Carried a cut-apart pair of fuzzy dice to a group of 6th-graders. It was a game to roll the dice and do on-the-fly calculations, great for kids practicing addition or multiplication ‘math facts’. “Quick, what is the product of those two numbers?” or “Quick, what’s the sum of those dice, plus 4?”
Learning to gesture, emote, and move with more confidence: this worked surprisingly well with high schoolers. Taught them a variation of charades. First lesson was to warm them up to the possibilities. The challenge was ‘sandwich.’ With groups that became familiar with this activity, I would give SAT words as the challenge.
It’s probably crazy but I struggle to imagine ever being a day-in, day-out teacher in a school, but I really liked subbing! Thanks for letting me get those out, it’s been years but those are fond memories.
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January 29th, 2014 at 2:02 am
great stories!
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August 18th, 2014 at 4:05 pm
Why does this comic have such a different art style?
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August 23rd, 2014 at 5:16 pm
Because sometimes I’m lazy
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