Curriculum Craftsperson Gifts

Teacher's Work Room: Error - Lesson has no aim.

"I haven't a clue what it does, but I don't know I managed without it"

'My mom's the greatest surgeon this side of Mayo brothers.'

Arts and crafts

'Home Schooling'

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

"We thought this was more realistic."

Multitool Knife

'I had a cough at the time!'

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

'This is going really well. I did a great job organizing this lecture.'

"So basically you're telling us that you make the youngest of your species sit in a room for twelves years and that is an education. . . you're kidding, right?"

Kate's first task as new principal was to right a number of wrongs.

"Any beaver can cut down trees, but marquetry, now that's art."

"Thank you for 30 years of teaching service. Now you have 5 minutes to turn in your keys, I.D. card, empty your desk and be escorted out."

Kenny's mom always made his lunch.

'I was going to teach them the meaning of life ... but it wasn't on the test.'

'That's o.k., Dugan - 'why do I even bother?' was a rhetorical question.'

An artist creates a sculpture of a "thumbs up" and is then crushed by it.

'A restaurateur prepares macaroni and sells it as pasta. I want you to do the same for the educational program at your school.'

Pottery

Craft Show: Earth & Martianware.

'Watch this! Open up a straw by scrunching up its wrapper! Now put a drop of water on that wrinkly paper tube! Check it out! It wiggles and grows!'

"Your resume says SOB, tell me more about that."

'You must be the new hire. Welcome aboard. Here's our prepackaged curriculum. If time permits, encourage critical thinking.'

'Your student Clara has tested as Talented and Gifted. But only in metal sculpting. You'll need to start incorporating metal sculpting into your daily lesson plans starting...tomorrow.'

'There's been a little accident in the glue shop.'

'You might not know it now but I used to have some great lesson plans.'

'How come you're always trying to teach me things I don't want to know.'

"The Ten Commandments Do-It-Yourself Kit"

'Take this back to the committee. Since this is a school I would like the mission statement to mention education.'

"We should have more physics in the biology and chemistry curricula."

Indian hollowing out log for a canoe sees woodpecker pecking his log

Phrenology head filled with National Curriculum instead of real knowledge.