Oh, hah, how didn't I notice that?

How about having the students plan out their meals for the week to manage calories?

You could make it a game (I know you like those) where the student who has the best caloric improvement wins a prize.

Or teach them about nutrition in other countries. Stuff like that can be really interesting and eye opening.

There was a really really cool book I read once about how much families from around the world eat each week.. hold on...

http://blog.deadgod.net/2007/11/15/A_week_of_food_around_the_world

And here's the book they are from: http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Planet-What-World-Eats/dp/1580088694/

Or maybe a movie about bio-engineered food:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427276/

11/11/2008 1:01:20 PM

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"I never wanted to play games and bullshit around, I wanted to dramatically increase my knowledge of real-world applications and the principles involved in both science and history. "

you'd be in the minority. even many of the AP-course taking students have no interest in getting everythign they can out of a class.

11/11/2008 1:37:19 PM

I know I didn't. I routinely brought my mug of screwdriver to my AP Calculus BC class. and my AP Physics, and FF English, and well, every other class that year.

11/11/2008 1:39:06 PM

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"were always the best behaved because every kid in there wanted to get on the machinery like it was Christmas morning. Find some similar prize for food and nutrition and BLAMMO, well behaved kids (for the most part)."

My kids are well behaved. That's not the problem. I use the same strategy - withholding their cooking labs when they haven't done their end of the bargain and that does help. I have excellent classroom management and my kids are angels for me. I had a girl get in a fight yesterday before school and she emailed me last night at 6 pm to apolgize to ME for dissappointing me...hahaha. My kids love me.


I find it humerous that someone named "God" is acting all omnipotent like a real God.
Have you seen a high schooler these days? They might pretend to be all responsible and grown up but my kids fight over stickers and candy and run like mad at the egg hunt just because they don't get to do that elsewhere. High schoolers and middle schoolers are IDENTICAL in most everything except size.

Somehow this thread keeps veering off course from "What did you love about your favorite teacher" to "negative negative negative."

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"You could make it a game (I know you like those) where the student who has the best caloric improvement wins a prize. Or teach them about nutrition in other countries. Stuff like that can be really interesting and eye opening. "

I would teach about other countries if it were part of the curriculum but it's not. I do share a random fact a day and would use some of that information there.

The planning a meal thing is a neat idea. Thanks.

11/11/2008 1:41:47 PM

I've always loved teachers with a sense of humor.

The one teacher I had for two history classes would have various ways of keeping us awake in class that were hilarious. He would beat on his podium or the whiteboard to emphasize points and would LOVE to drop things next to people that were asleep on the desk. It was entertaining.

At one point, a student made him a huuuuge hammer (like a gavel). Well, the teacher that had a classroom next to this teacher would sometimes start slapping wars through the walls.

One day, my teacher took up the hammer to beat on the whiteboard, and totally cracked the whiteboard.

I loved that guy. He was animated and funny.

11/11/2008 2:25:03 PM

pawprint: the face you even made a thread about this says a lot about your teaching ability

I'm glad we have teachers like you out there who care so much Keep it up! How's that for some positive!>!.?

11/11/2008 4:06:59 PM