<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:cem955@mail.harvard.edu">cem955@mail.harvard.edu</a>> Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:04 PM Subject: Fwd: [Tie2010] Just for laughs... To: iaep <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>> <div style="margin-top:6px;margin-right:6px;margin-bottom:6px;margin-left:6px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);min-height:1100px;line-height:normal"> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">just thought I'd pass on some humor sent to me by one of the teachers in my program -- The next Survivor Have you heard about the next planned “Survivor” show? Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped in an elementary school classroom for 6 weeks. Each business person will be provided with a copy of their school district's curriculum, and a class of 28 students. Each class will have five learning-disabled children, three with A.D.D., one gifted child, and two who speak limited English. Three will be labelled as severe behaviour problems. Each business person must complete lesson plans at least 3 days in advance, with annotations for curriculum objectives, and modify, organize, or create materials accordingly. They will be required to teach students, handle misconduct, implement technology, document attendance, write referrals, correct homework, make bulletin boards, compute grades, complete report cards, document benchmarks, communicate with parents, and arrange parent conferences. They must also supervise recess and monitor the hallways. In addition, they will complete drills for fire, tornadoes, or shooting attacks. They must attend workshops, (100 hours), faculty meetings, union meetings, and curriculum development meetings. They must also tutor those students who are behind, and strive to get their 2 non-English speaking children proficient. If they are sick or having a bad day they must not let it show. Each day they must incorporate reading, writing, math, science, and social studies into the program. They must maintain discipline and provide an educationally stimulating environment at all times. The business people will only have access to the golf course on the weekends, but on their new salary they will not be able to afford it anyway. There will be no access to vendors who want to take them out to lunch, and lunch will be limited to 30 minutes, 10 of which must be spent walking your students to lunch, getting them through the cafeteria lines and seating them at the correct table. On days when they do not have recess duty, the business people will be permitted to use the staff restroom - as long as another survival candidate is supervising their class. They will be provided with two 40-minute planning periods per week while their students are at specials. If the copier is operable, they may make copies of necessary materials at this time. The business people must continually advance their education on their own time, and pay for this advanced training themselves. This can be accomplished by moonlighting at a second job or marrying someone with money. The winner will be allowed to return to his or her job. PASS THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS WHO THINK TEACHING IS EASY, AND TO THE ONES THAT KNOW IT IS HARD. THEY WILL BOTH BENEFIT!! <div> </div></div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jennifer Cottle <<a href="mailto:jac327@mail.harvard.edu" target="_blank">jac327@mail.harvard.edu</a>> Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:51 PM Subject: [Tie2010] Just for laughs... To: TIE 2010 list <<a href="mailto:tie2010@list.gse.harvard.edu" target="_blank">tie2010@list.gse.harvard.edu</a>> Most of you have probably seen this, but it's a little humour for our 1st week. -- Jennifer Cottle Ed.M. Candidate 2010 Technology, Innovation and Education Harvard Graduate School of Education </div></div>_______________________________________________ Tie2010 mailing list <a href="mailto:Tie2010@list.gse.harvard.edu" target="_blank">Tie2010@list.gse.harvard.edu</a> <a href="http://list.gse.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/tie2010" target="_blank">http://list.gse.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/tie2010</a> </div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax </div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax