If you were to write a message to the incoming students of this school year, and this message was the first thing they’d see upon entering their new classroom, what would your message read?
Hi! I'm Toni Tiu,
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evi
June 12, 2006 at 7:23 am (18 years ago)Soar high!
Joey
June 12, 2006 at 10:27 am (18 years ago)The sentence below is false.
The sentence above is true.
One of the sentences above is false.
Hehehehehe.
tintin
June 12, 2006 at 11:13 am (18 years ago)Only hungry minds can grow.
Daphne
June 12, 2006 at 3:03 pm (18 years ago)Don’t waste this precious (and expensive) opportunity to learn learn and learn!
ganns
June 12, 2006 at 6:05 pm (18 years ago)It may not make sense now, but trust me, someday, you’ll look back and say, “Oh! That’s what he meant!”
annabanana
June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm (18 years ago)i usually start the first day of class with a nice joke or riddle. my kids love those elephant jokes that are abundant in the internet. since i teach english as a foreign language to korean kids, i will know just how much progress they have made (at the end of the term) when the jokes start to make sense to them. so tones, how do you fit an elephant into a fridge? 😀
delish
June 13, 2006 at 12:31 am (18 years ago)what are you doing here, really?
mare
June 13, 2006 at 1:03 am (18 years ago)“You get what you give.”
I said this all the time when I was teaching. It worked.
pinayhekmi
June 13, 2006 at 1:11 am (18 years ago)I like the jokey ones with a message. It gets the kids laughing and it stays with them. They either get it immediately or later, but it stays with them.
i.e. gann’s It may not make sense now, but trust me, someday, you’ll look back and say, “Oh! That’s what he meant!”
BH
June 13, 2006 at 5:32 am (18 years ago)I will leave it blank…
I would want them to see it as a limitless abyss
and I would tell them
” This is your mind
every line that we put on here
carries a dream
yours
mine
your parents
your country’s
the world’s…”
Junnie
June 13, 2006 at 6:36 am (18 years ago)On this site will rise – YOUR FUTURE!
Kay
June 13, 2006 at 7:46 am (18 years ago)Without education, you will never get all that you want or dream of.
justice
June 13, 2006 at 2:35 pm (18 years ago)“Welcome to your Doom!”—tapos enter a teacher who isn’t the stereotype. Hmm, kinda reminded me of The Ron Clark story hehe
DanieL
June 13, 2006 at 8:12 pm (18 years ago)To infinity and beyond!
blockhead
June 14, 2006 at 12:39 am (18 years ago)I would impart Wyatt Earp’s wisdom:
No guns within the school limits!
tanya
June 14, 2006 at 4:10 am (18 years ago)“throw this chalk and eraser at me and you’re dead.” 😀
bh
June 15, 2006 at 2:40 am (18 years ago)Coach Carter’s question:
What is your greatest fear?
bh
June 15, 2006 at 2:41 am (18 years ago)a cliche:
ad astra per aspera
bh
June 17, 2006 at 2:49 am (18 years ago)” To the stars through difficulties “
bh
June 17, 2006 at 3:48 pm (18 years ago)answer to Coach Carter’s question:
” our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.
it is our light, not our darkness, that frighten us.
we ask ourselves, who am i to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?
actually, who are you not to be?
you are a child of God.
your playing small does not serve the world
there is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
we were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
it is not just in some, it is in everyone.
and, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
as we are liberated from our fear,
our prescence automatically liberates others.
-M. Williamson