To ensure that you make the job of a teacher even harder than it already is, please do the following:1. Whine when given assignments to complete in class, "Do we have to do this?"
2. Ask the teacher that for these assignments, you would like to do it as homework because, "I just don't want to do this right now."
3. Display facial expressions throughout the class like someone is holding a piece of moldy cheese under your nose.
4. Continue to text on your phone after the teacher has repeatedly expressed the rule of turning off cell phones in the class. Do this while explaining to the teacher, "I'm almost finished. Just wait."
5. Request to leave class a little bit early because you have an important appointment. Then proceed to smoke cigarettes outside the entrance where the teacher can see just what this "appointment" was.
6. Argue with the teacher that your grammar error is actually correct because you like the way it sounds and you really wanted to use those words.
7. Believe that one word only has one meaning. Block out all evidence of research that supports otherwise: ambiguity, polysemy, homonyms, metaphor, idioms, cultural nuances.
8. Use your electronic dictionary to send messages to friends in class who speak the same language.
9. Write notes in your native language and pass them around for others to laugh at.
10. Pass off assignments from previous classes as having done them for this class, when the content is nowhere near what the teacher asked for.
I've blogged before about the challenges I'm facing with the class I teach this semester. All of the "advice" above is from actual incidents I've experienced in the past two months.
Today's wish: That fall would hurry up and make things a little cooler around here.
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