Yeah, today people have been trying to make me get the “big head.”.
One of the most annoying thing about my parents is that they rarely praised me because they thought I might quite trying….
Anyway, I just have to tell these two stories ….
One of my coworkers interrupted another teacher and I trying to solve a problem … but oh well, here’s what the other teacher had to say:
“Do you remember x? I’m teaching her now (she home schools our students who can’t attend school). She says that you are an awesome teacher” (Note: I am quoting here.
Yes, I did remember her. The other teacher told me that she said that she had been passing my class and was actually getting Algebra until they transferred her to another teacher (they did that with almost all the kids that I got to pass Algebra last semester, long story, I’m not telling it again today). Ever since then she wasn’t getting it and wasn’t passing.
Well, it makes you both happy and sad. Happy that your work is being recognized, happy that you could turn a kid around, but very sad you couldn’t make it continue past you.
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But it gets better. I have been having a weird network problem in my lab. Couldn’t figure it out, so I had asked a guy that wrote some of the network software I use if he could shed any light. I’m only SO good at networking. He volunteered to troubleshoot the network and did today and pinpointed our problem.
While I had him on the phone I told him the story I haven’t told here, and when I finished, I heard dumbfounded on the line (yeah, you can hear it if you listen hard). His response? I’ve been in lots of computer classrooms over the yeras and you are one the 10 best computer science teachers I’ve ever seen.
So yeah, I’m getting the big head.
Hey, it’s my blog, I can post what I want.