{"id":90,"date":"2014-05-01T19:15:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T23:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/?p=90"},"modified":"2014-05-01T21:28:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T01:28:40","slug":"what-would-you-do-if-you-had-an-extra-half-hour-before-the-last-lesson-you-taught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/2014\/05\/01\/what-would-you-do-if-you-had-an-extra-half-hour-before-the-last-lesson-you-taught\/","title":{"rendered":"What would You Do If You Had An Extra Half Hour Before The Last Lesson You Taught?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the first day back after intensives, which means it was my first day of teaching the newest incarnation of “Banking and Investing.” \u00a0I’ve loved this class since\u00a0I started teaching it in 2011, just a few years after the credit crisis forced thousands to be confused about just what exactly caused the credit crisis<\/a>. \u00a0While the past 3 years of teaching this eight week course allows me to have it down to a science, there is a still a panic inducing moment before I start heading down to the first session\u00a0where I FREAK OUT! \u00a0All of a sudden rapid mental leaps\u00a0between old\u00a0dropbox folders and google search results takes place while saying otherwise unspeakable things about the stupid printer\u00a0and of course the\u00a0intermittent spurts of self-loathing and anger at all of the new concepts and ideas that didn’t get fleshed out. \u00a0It’s\u00a0like my mind crams the\u00a0entire weekend before a new school year into\u00a0my free period after lunch.<\/p>\n

Today was the same panic session, including a first-ever bang of my head against the wall in an unintentional nod to Kevin Garnett. \u00a0Then, after running down the stairs like a crazy person, I saw the classroom full of kids at 2:45 and realized what I should have realized long ago. \u00a0“This is not\u00a0my class..” \u00a0In the ‘fog of education’ I forgot that PM school starts at 3:15, and I actually had half an hour before class started! \u00a0The remaining adrenaline in my system rushed\u00a0me back to my desk before I had enough time to take a deep breath and\u00a0think about what this really meant. \u00a0I had an extra half an hour before class to make any changes that I wanted. \u00a0I have an extra half hour.<\/em>\u00a0 It felt like\u00a0I was watching the TV in my sleepwear\u00a0as the Chancellor calls a snow day. \u00a0What do I do with this extra half an hour? \u00a0I’ll tell you what I’d did\u00a0with my\u00a0extra half hour, but I’m really curious to hear what you would do with one of your own.<\/p>\n

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The most important thing I did with my half hour was calm down, and then really look at the worksheets that I had hastily printed out. \u00a0Instead of giving them out as usual, I thought about how I could break them into pieces. \u00a0I ended up taking the top “Context” part of the worksheet, quickly putting it on a google spreadsheet of it’s own, so I could show that to students and let them really understand it before giving them the entire sheet. \u00a0With the students really understanding the whole point of the exercise “What would you do with a million dollars” it stopped them from jumping down to the middle of the sheet and trying to come up with answers as manically as I was running of copies about 45 minutes earlier.<\/p>\n

So much of regular teaching workload involves squeezing things in right up until the moment I’m “ON” that I might lose out on a few small things I could do to make lessons better. \u00a0What about you? \u00a0What would you do with an extra half hour before you taught your last lesson?<\/p>\n

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