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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more)</title>
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	<description>Middle school teaching: Five shows a day, 180 days a year.</description>
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		<title>The Timer Redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one isn&#8217;t exactly a rerun per se&#8230;let&#8217;s call it more of a rewrite&#8230;
This year&#8217;s crew has been a bit more, shall we say, trying, than any in recent memory. They&#8217;re nice enough for seventh graders and all, but they are really frying my bacon this year. So I have to get my kicks where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were going over this week&#8217;s academic words pretest today, and when we got to the word integral, I was searching for a way to differentiate it from inherent, which is another word this week.
&#8220;Inherent is sort of like &#8216;built-in,&#8217; part of the &#8230;being of something. Like&#8230;you were all born inherently good, unless there was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachingtheoutsiders.com/integral/</link>
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		<title>Staff Development for the Passive Aggressive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Warning: Lots of scare quotes ahead.)
I hate being out of my classroom for &#8220;in-services,&#8221; &#8220;trainings,&#8221; &#8220;workshops,&#8221; or &#8220;classes,&#8221; especially the district mandated/sponsored ones. You know the kind, where they read powerpoint slides to you, you do &#8220;jigsaw&#8221; activities (gawd, I hate those), share with your 3 o&#8217;clock partner, and get a bunch of handouts that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachingtheoutsiders.com/staff-development-for-the-passive-aggressive/</link>
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		<title>No, You&#8217;re Not.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whereas the kids tend to have their stock three-word phrases, I have more of a four-word phrase arsenal. Here&#8217;s a sampling off the top the head.
&#8220;No doubt, rainbow trout.&#8221; (Yes. Or &#8220;Indubitably&#8221; as the Lollys say it.)
&#8220;No dice, cheese slice.&#8221;  (No.)
&#8220;Let the King decide.&#8221; (When I want to give them the illusion of choice.)
&#8220;Glad I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teachingtheoutsiders.com/no-youre-not/</link>
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		<title>Scrape that Mucus Off Your Brain. (Also: Now I&#8217;m the Straight Man.)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Science &#8220;lesson&#8221; today. It&#8217;s Friday, so that means the weekly test, the suspense over whether they will score the 28/40 necessary to avoid the dreaded SSI (when the results were displayed today, one girl who made the cut did about as much dancing as one could do while still remaining seated), and best of all, [...]]]></description>
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