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Break Time

Posted by: dateacher on: May 26, 2009

For the first time in many, many years I have a summer break.  This week is the official start to this break since I spent a good portion of the first 2 weeks after my last day working for a local dentist in a temporary capacity or running all kinds of errands or having scheduled [...]

Let’s pray…

Posted by: dateacher on: March 2, 2009

Referring to two of my previous posts:  “Never been popular, why start now” and “A – for Effort,”  I came across this C.S. Lewis quote:  “Let’s pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.” You can imagine it got me to thinking what if humans escaped Earth – what [...]

Never been popular, why start now!

Posted by: dateacher on: February 20, 2009

I was not really all that popular early in my life for my opinions/thoughts, so why should now be any different…..
Every day I find that I am disagreeing more and more with the norm or the status quo.  I find that my opinion differs from the vast majority of people in this world today.  How [...]

“A” for the effort

Posted by: dateacher on: February 20, 2009

What a timely report on Fox and Friends…self-entitled college student survey. As an instructor on the college level, I see shades of this daily. Are all college students self-entitled? Well, no, but those who are seem to shout louder, complain harder, or just whine more about their situation.
Don’t try to tell me that [...]

Participate

Posted by: dateacher on: October 11, 2008

So I want to start this post with an on-topic discussion and move completely off topic because I got some things on my mind…
On the topic of being a dental assisting instructor – I was THRILLED with class on Thursday.  Getting them to participate was hard – I’d tried just about everything and suddenly I [...]

New Faculty

Posted by: dateacher on: September 26, 2008

The last two days I spent time with my new faculty colleagues learning what our community college system has to offer us as a faculty.  It was eye opening in the fact that there are many resources offered to the faculty group that save us hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars.  It was also eye opening [...]

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