Note to 1st years

What can be an easier and quicker reference than a list of DOs and DONTs to the new first years:

DOs

  • go out
  • drink
  • hang out with non teachers
  • talk about non school stuff with your teacher friends
  • see Oxford, all of it
  • go to an Ole Miss football game weekend experience
  • participate in some type of extracurricular at your school
  • your blogs, actively, not just the required ones
  • find a hobby and pursue it actively
  • drink (on weekday afternoons when you get home from school)
  • show a real side of yourself to your students
  • drink coffee
  • lesson plan ahead
  • workout
  • call Ben Guest with questions, he will help you
DONTs
  • give up and quit
  • spend your planning period aimlessly browsing the internet
  • skip your MTC classes
  • bring your grading home with you
  • bring your school troubles home with you
  • get too lax on your classroom management
  • gain the Teacher Corps Twenty pounds
  • suck any toes of your students
  • touch your students
  • keep your problems to yourself on MTC class weekends
  • prejudge or stereotype
In a nutshell, just don't get discouraged. The process will be long, and it will be hard. But there will be those moments that will inspire and motivate you. The MTC classes might get you down, but stick with it. Plow to the end the of the row. Shuck the corn and eat it too. Good luck class of whatever you are (because it's wacked out now or something).

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ashton
This is completely irrelevant to this post (although I enjoyed it), but I just read your recent fan post on RSC and couldn't post there due to OSAAS rules. But I've worked with Dexter twice, and he's a product of his parents- his parents drive up from the Tampa area (or wherever in Florida he's from) each weekend to watch him play- that's 16 hours one way and his parents don't leave until they get off on Friday afternoon. I had the opportunity to meet his dad last year, and it's obvious that he's always had a strong support system. I hope your student was inspired by Dex- now if only he were interested in baseball and could meet Scott Bittle. ha.

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