One of my favorite artists (Amanda Palmer) uses Twitter to announce spontaneous meet-and-greets, give away tickets, take questions and generally be available to fans in a way that it'd be difficult to otherwise. (@amandapalmer if anyone cares to follow)
While I think that probably a large part of Twitter traffic is inane chatter, I hope to see more use like what I describe.
Try the physics prof at the community college back home, who had to essentially cut out huge portions of his curriculum because a third of the class belonged to a local cult, and "weren't allowed" to do things like listen to music (for the section on soundwaves)
And last time I checked (which was 3 years ago) all of that "well rounded education" stuff was universally less important performance-wise than the material related to the field you were going into.
That would seem to indicate that even the colleges recognize that they're primarily there to teach people how to operate in their chosen field.
I think the thing to do would be to strengthen academic requirements to progress through a degree, but also make it easier for a student to transfer their progress (up to the point where they become "stuck") over to a vo-tech or some other degree that's within their academic ability.
Also totally OT, but my sympathy about the situation with your daughter, I hope that's being worked out (my mother is in speech pathology, so the school system's fumbling about such things is a subject I hear of often)
"All that said, for us to 'fire' teachers seems to imply that we believe that teachers cannot learn and retrain to become better teachers. Isn't that ironic?"
Sad more like.
To my observance most "bad teaching" is an attitude problem, those become harder and harder to remedy the older one gets.
Serious question: Do you find that the one year contracts tend to reduce a teacher's tendency to do anything that might go against the grain in terms of teaching methods?
Two of my friends are math teachers in a rural area; combined with what you mention they're having to teach 6th grade math to highschool seniors on TOP of trying to get the actual curriculum across to those in the class that are able to understand it.
Potatofarmer came quite close in his/her post below. Essentially I mean an area that is developed largely at the same time for residential occupation.
What I had in mind is essentially where an area of real estate is divided up by developers, where things like apartment complexes, gated communities (enclosed neighborhoods of many similarly constructed houses) and the like are put in, sometimes with some kind of unified aesthetic or landscaping.
I'm unsure if it's common practice elsewhere in the world but yes I'm speaking from a perspective on the outskirts of a city in the southeastern US, where this type of growth is pretty much normal in suburb expansion.
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So what did that cost (including time please)
What's the difference?
All you have to do is convince the masses that the reason that other stuff is free is because it's crap
Dietary cholesterol actually doesn't affect the body the way once thought (google around if you like)
Probably the only way cholesterol could kill a gorilla is if it were dropped into a vat of it :)
One of my favorite artists (Amanda Palmer) uses Twitter to announce spontaneous meet-and-greets, give away tickets, take questions and generally be available to fans in a way that it'd be difficult to otherwise. (@amandapalmer if anyone cares to follow)
While I think that probably a large part of Twitter traffic is inane chatter, I hope to see more use like what I describe.
Goats are made of food, just like cows, chickens, sheep, and pigs :)
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Try the physics prof at the community college back home, who had to essentially cut out huge portions of his curriculum because a third of the class belonged to a local cult, and "weren't allowed" to do things like listen to music (for the section on soundwaves)
And last time I checked (which was 3 years ago) all of that "well rounded education" stuff was universally less important performance-wise than the material related to the field you were going into.
That would seem to indicate that even the colleges recognize that they're primarily there to teach people how to operate in their chosen field.
I think the thing to do would be to strengthen academic requirements to progress through a degree, but also make it easier for a student to transfer their progress (up to the point where they become "stuck") over to a vo-tech or some other degree that's within their academic ability.
Also totally OT, but my sympathy about the situation with your daughter, I hope that's being worked out (my mother is in speech pathology, so the school system's fumbling about such things is a subject I hear of often)
"in-service days you worked"
Lol. It's too bad the union forgot about all those nights and weekends grading papers and preparing material.
"All that said, for us to 'fire' teachers seems to imply that we believe that teachers cannot learn and retrain to become better teachers. Isn't that ironic?"
Sad more like.
To my observance most "bad teaching" is an attitude problem, those become harder and harder to remedy the older one gets.
Serious question: Do you find that the one year contracts tend to reduce a teacher's tendency to do anything that might go against the grain in terms of teaching methods?
What subject?
Two of my friends are math teachers in a rural area; combined with what you mention they're having to teach 6th grade math to highschool seniors on TOP of trying to get the actual curriculum across to those in the class that are able to understand it.
"It's not job training"
Repeating it over and over doesn't make it true. Maybe once that was the case, but not now.
That just means you both saw those movies in highschool.
Not terribly hopeful that it'll work for apple.
Sorry, anything useful you might have to say was drowned out by all your retarded "AOHell" words making you sound like an angry highschooler.
Don't forget poor spelling.
I think the OP's suggestion is that the law (or such parts of it that apply to this situation) are in error
Yeah, it's never too soon for stingray jokes.
You might be surprised. I've taken over several apps where just this thing was done.
Why? So when the generic and totally unhandled exception got thrown, it was apparent where the program stopped of course!
"I don't recall ever seeing a piece of production code using it where this wasn't the case."
Now that you mention it...
Well, "Systems" Hungarian at least, in my short programming experience.
My colleagues now seem a slight bit less retarded programming wise (and I'm sure I'm no whiz myself)
So you cruelly burst their bubble, right?
Potatofarmer came quite close in his/her post below. Essentially I mean an area that is developed largely at the same time for residential occupation.
What I had in mind is essentially where an area of real estate is divided up by developers, where things like apartment complexes, gated communities (enclosed neighborhoods of many similarly constructed houses) and the like are put in, sometimes with some kind of unified aesthetic or landscaping.
I'm unsure if it's common practice elsewhere in the world but yes I'm speaking from a perspective on the outskirts of a city in the southeastern US, where this type of growth is pretty much normal in suburb expansion.