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Tag Archives: classroom
Teaching and Trainspotting (Rousse)
The school secretary informed me that my first class as a newly qualified teacher would be mathematics with the fourth years – even though I was completely unqualified to teach this subject at secondary level. When I learnt that my … Continue reading
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Tagged assembly, cessation, classroom, loyalty, mathematics, mentor, music, pupils, remedial, secondary, secretary, smoking, song, soundtrack, teacher, teaching, trainspotting
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Displaying a nipple and swimming with baby dolphins in lockdown (Rousse)
Campus was open again. I was there once more attending lectures, and they were even measuring the water levels in the swimming pool. On most days I sat next to my primary school ‘friend’ ST, delighted that I was admitted … Continue reading
Double entendre speaking début (Rousse)
While speaking to a class of disengaged further education students, BD made the most inappropriate double entendre. It was both appalling and hysterical – and I could not hold back my laughter from under a huge paper bed sheet at … Continue reading
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Tagged classroom, double, entendre, further education, speak, speaker
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Three-legged dogs in the classroom (Rousse)
The students chose their modules using a manual ‘course sorter’. This was an enormous sectioned white roller blind. The Chinese contingent was extremely disappointed not to be able to select a particular combination of modules. However, this was not my … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990s, 3-legged, academic, blind, Chinese, classroom, course, dog, module, Queen Margaret College, role, student, three-legged
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Belle the librarian serves Rousse the criminal (Rousse)
It was a tough route up the concrete staircase in the cold to the main library of Birmingham City University, but so worth the struggle to be greeted by squeals of joy from Belle, on duty at the main enquiry … Continue reading
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Tagged arrest, Belle, Birmingham City University, campaign, card, career, classroom, concrete, crime, criminal, CV, desk, dull, enquiry, forearm, graduate, grown, hall, joy, lecture, librarian, library, police, protest, Rousse, SCONUL, sensible, shock, sit-in, staircase, student, suspicion, table, terribel, toned, warrant, work
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What not to say and/or do at a school reunion (Rousse)
I was completely unaware that I was standing next to LC and KF when I said that the first couple of school reunions were very poorly organised. I quickly corrected myself by saying that the events themselves were fabulous. Rather … Continue reading
A rescue from classroom chaos (Rousse)
The classroom was in chaos. Bowls of soup dropped down from the ceiling. My ex-colleague KB had prepared far too much for a one-hour class, and I was unconvinced that colouring-in was an appropriate undergraduate activity. JM came to the … Continue reading
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Tagged ceiling, chaos, class, classroom, colleague, colouring-in, embrace, hand, madness, rescue, room, soup, undergraduate, walk
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Malnourished student rescued from cold classroom (Rousse)
I found D naked on all fours in the cold classroom where he he had taken refuge before Christmas. He looked terrible. His long hair had matted into dreadlocks, and he was dangerously thin having not eaten for about six … Continue reading
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Tagged ambulance, Christmas, classroom, cold, dreadlocks, hair, malnourished, refuge, rescue, student, thin
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Insolent student sleeps rough in public library (Rousse)
Having spotted insolence in the student’s work I called him from the classroom out into the corridor to ask him to explain himself. He excused himself on the grounds of stress: his fitness business had failed in the US, he’d … Continue reading
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Tagged business, classroom, consolation, corridor, drink, drug, explain, fitness, girlfriend, grounds, insolent, library, public, rough, sleep, stress, student, work
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Dead man chairs a game of classroom charades (Rousse)
Everyone was seated on rows of chairs in a classroom for the lunchtime game of charades. Those in the front row performed first. Then, as soon as someone in the audience made a correct guess, everyone moved forward a row … Continue reading →