a close up of my desk today
Please note that there are no less than 4 calendars in some form seen here on what is a half view of my desk. One of said calendars is NOT the brown notebook lying on the desk. They are as follows:
- One day planner in the foreground for both personal and school-related items.
- One flip calendar seen on the left given to all teachers by the TEDA education bureau. School related deadlines only.
- One day planner/lesson planner/mark book in the big blue binder lying diagonally against the magazine file. No actual ‘magazines’ but instead every Canadian-history-made-easy textbook one can possibly find on campus. I plan or try to plan all my classes in this binder which also stores grades, notes, class lists, detention lists, meeting doodles etc.
- And finally, the self-made Days Left in China countdown calendar clipped and taped to the wall that I take great joy in taking one page off of every day, shredding and then looking at the remains of said number in the trash can by my desk.
Thank you.
Another view
The teaching hallway...my 4 different classrooms are all down here.
Ya, right!
What I felt like today trying to answer my students pre-exam questions. There are several of these not-so-well-done taxidermy dioramas throughout our teaching building. ???