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ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:25 pm

5 minutes here and there while my class does math.

And.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:41 pm

I like the bottom one. Do you hide what you're doing when a kid comes to the desk or do you display it proudly whilst making fun of their drawings?

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:48 pm

I hid the last one until today...Then I told them it was Santa.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:39 am

This is very good.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:46 am

I can hardly wait until I get my new PC tablet. I'm skipping WACOM due to price and going for the cheap stuff that requires batteries. My WACOM has lasted me 7 years, but it's past it's retirement and I can't get a "pencil" effect out of it at all. 1024 points of pressure sensitivity, here I come. Then again, I'll never come up with anything good on the computer. I'm a charcoal pencil person.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:52 pm

It's great, but ink is the true king, in all honesty.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:04 pm

I can do the same in ink, in fact, up until recently, all I ever used were pens (one of the cheap sets I picked up for about $50 while considering doing art for a living).. Pencils are cheap..Pens cost money and I don't want to run out of fluid in the middle of a large cross-hatched scene.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 6:47 pm

Those are pretty good but it reflects that you are a bad teacher. Though you are a kindergarden teacher(ARNULD LOL) so I guess its more about babysitting.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 6:48 pm

Yeah, kinda weird you're not helping with their math and chit

Kahgan · Post by **Kahgan** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:08 pm

I like the first one, hurrah

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:26 pm

The first one looks like a French dock worker. The second one is better. I like the eyes. Do you teach them kids art too? In that case at least one of them will become a serial killer, I tell you.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 11:42 pm

VasikkA wrote:at least one of them will become a serial killer

One violently disturbed child would be gravely disappointing. I trust Ryno has the moxy to successfully traumatise more than one.

Nice artwork, also.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:19 am

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:Those are pretty good but it reflects that you are a bad teacher. Though you are a kindergarden teacher(ARNULD LOL) so I guess its more about babysitting.

Okay...I'm a 4th grade teacher. They have self control and can sit on one place for more than 10 minutes. There are two subjects I am allowed to teach: Reading and Math. In the morning, I go over reading for 2 hours, then the students do an assignment on their own for the next 10 minutes. Then we grade the work together, going over each question about 10 minutes each, and then we go to lunch. Lunch time is roughly 20 minutes total (that includes recess). We then return to class and do a (as in 1 of those 20 minute lessons, but it takes me about 2 hours to get them to actually grasp the concept) math lesson for the next two hours. Then the students do work for about 10 minutes on their own. Then we grade the work together and go over each question for about 10 minutes as if they were their own lesson. Essentially I have taught an entire year of Math and Reading concepts at the 4th grade (and a bit of the 5th grade) level in less than 18 weeks.

My class has gone from an average of 31% in Reading to about a 50%. We've gone from a 31% in Math to about a 53% in Math. The assessments used are intentionally 20% more difficult (as in they're written for students two grades higher). This means that my students have gone from failing to a "C" or "Average" score....Which is the goal for the end of the year Criterion Reference Tests given in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, and 11th grades. During the next 19 weeks we will go over the same materials again at a higher grade level equivalent as to hopefully raise their scores above the district average.

I've got documentation to prove these claims, I assure you. Am I going to scan about 200 pages of data to show you? No. But for you to say I'm a bad teacher because out of the entire day I choose to have 5 minutes to myself while my students work on a worksheet on their own (or in heterogeneous groups should the lesson prove challenging), then you're a moron in that you have no idea what it is like to teach children coming to you with a second or first grade reading level or a first or second grade math level and bring each and every one of them (with the exception of two of the four students on IEPs; my school has total inclusion for special education students) up to grade level in just 17 weeks.

In essence, I guess I took offence.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:40 am

You're the best teacher ever, Ryno.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:51 am

My principal agrees. So does the city in general. I've been appointed webmaster for the Oklahoma City Reading Council. I fucking rule.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:48 am

vendetta · Post by **vendetta** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:56 am

This is cool. I wish I could draw like taht too.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:58 am

ExtremeRyno wrote:

They give out oscars for webmasters?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:06 am

The best I-look-like-I'm-happy-about-this act of the year goes to....

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:04 pm

I can't help but chuckle when I think of the 'past Ryno' Vs 'present Ryno' contrast

Good job mate, especially with the kids