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In-Service Seminars for Teachers

A Puppet Named Juan

'From six to to eighteen, they're always at that age.'

'Okay, is there anybody else whose homework ate their dog?'

"It's no my fault I got a D. The system is broken."

'Good girl, Carol - now hands up all those who have lost their pens.'

'Smashing party, Miss - can we have another one tomorrow?'

'Your classroom management techniques work in practice but not in theory. That worries me.'

The full moon frenzy strikes again."

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

Children's education

'The reason the core curriculum seems so ambiguous is that we dot really have a core curriculum.'

"I figure I have about 20 years of school to go."

In addition to brilliant grades and perfect SATs � Parents' night. College admissions. Your child should excel at 3 sports and lead a school extra-curricular like the newspaper. Don't the arts count? Sure! If your child sings, for example � A part on 'Glee' or in the Metropolitan Opera would certainly help. Our kids are doomed.

'Long term I want student achievement to increase. Short time I want a cup of coffee and a biscotti.'

'Actually, nowadays it's considered offensive to call an answer 'wrong'.'

'Life isn't fair and neither is Miss Brown!'

"If you do well in your first practicum, you can move on to teaching real children."

"I've heard of being organized, but isn't this a little obsessive compulsive?"

Teacher getting the childrens attention by pretending to be on television.

'You can't blame the kids for being restless when we have math teachers teaching French, and English teachers teaching science.'

Education Guidance

Teacher's pet dog

The History Teacher

"'How to Buy Tickets on Bezos' Spaceship so You Can Live to See Your Teens,' by Chloe Butler."

Too much homework: kid with two backpacks.

'Well, when you mess up on the job, you know where you stand with me.'

J.P.Hensmore Superintendent AKA Head Honcho, The Big Guy,The Man, Numero Uno and The Big Cheese.

I'm in the den mom, reading the newspaper for social studies class.

"Tell me again how many young minds I will have shaped by the end of my teaching career."

"Darren Eggleston. I saw that!"

'That's the bell for round two.'

Lessons.

Smirking or Non-smirking

'I give the same advice to all new teachers. Pretend you know what you are doing.'