resign_ed

resigned last week

and it was accepted this week...

and yet

today

i think of new ways of teaching...

but they are a little too laborious to employ at this stage

taking elements from films

and showing the kids

eg the doors in monsters inc

relating that to negative numbers

makes me think about the relationship between negative indices

which is related to fractions

and yet at the same time

can they refer to negative dimensions?

to use a film over a two week period when teaching...

hm...

i have a couple of months left of teaching

perhaps i should push the boat out and try...?

also

i have this feeling that my education was mostly what happened outside of school

when we played games at home

i don't think i thought much at school

i just learned stuff rote-fashion

and there is this guy in one of my classes

who doesn't seem to do much

and yet

he ends up getting the highest grades

and i found him once on the computers

playing games

and he said that what he spent most of his time doing...

my prediction is

they should rename the maths department as the games department

and have a course on arithmetic

i have three ideas which i am playing around with

regarding education

which are

1

to write a fictional account of an educationalist in the future

day in the life of

kind of thing

2

specify an ideal system for school now

kind of like parking my ideas as specifically and systematically as possible

3

send off the old education book

the last i really need to do