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January
03: Not So Unforeseen Consequences of Being Absent From Class Too Often
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04: The Trouble with Communicating Only When There's Trouble
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05: The Pros and Cons of Conveniences in Lecturing
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06: Not Just About Insistence But Finding The Right Things to Insist On
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07: For Better or Worse, In Sickness and Health, In Honors and Failures
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09: What I'm NOT Teaching This Term
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10: Not Just For Science and Engineering Again
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11: Changing Parts of The Robot Class
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12: Evolution of the General Science Requirement
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13: How Machines Count
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14: All In the Name of Putting Up Appearances and Immortality in Photos
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16: Coordinating Laboratories That Are Used By More Than One Group of People
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17: A Laboratory Nears Maximum Use
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18: Different Ways of Operating on Numbers
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19: Classroom Seat Musical Chairs Up to the Second Week of the Term
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20: Like Repeating the Whole Board Exam Even if You Passed Some Subtests
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21: Talking About Web Presence/s This Time
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23: Students Wanting Things To Their Advantage Just Because They Weren't There When the Rules Were Given
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24: It's The Teacher's Dilemma Too If He Continues With the Lecture Knowing the Students Didn't Get the Previous Topic
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25: When Teachers to Subjects Aren't Certain Even on the Third Week of Classes
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26: When Students' Wounds Run Deep
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27: Propagating the Belief of Absorption by Repetition
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28: Thirty Six Months of Details
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30: When A Teacher Welcomes Questions In Class
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31: Modification Is One Path of Creativity
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February
01: Blurring the Line of Fantasy and Possibility
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02: Replacing Another Teacher Has The New Teacher Adjusting As Much As the Students
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03: Are There Instances When Contingency Measures Should Only Be Taught After Things DO Go Wrong?
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04: Students' Ideas For Improving Existing Robots
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06: Adjusting For Students Who Were Absent In the Previous Lecture
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07: When Books Relied Upon Aren't Reliable
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08: Again Expanding Basic Concepts Discussed In Class
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09: When One Subject Needs Advanced Learning In Another Subject
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10: The Dilemma Having Both Accelerated and "Decelerated" Students In One Class
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11: Insisting On Proper Documentation For Students' Projects
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13: It's The Slightly Problematic That Cry Out Louder
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14: Thinking of New Policies For the Science Lab
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15: Design Changes Are A Part Of Life
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16: A Teacher Looking For "Real Life" Examples
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17: Putting Theory Into Practice
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18: Showing Off The Students' Mechanical Creations
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20: Unintentional Change of (Lesson) Plan
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21: Taking the Robot Challenges to the Next Level
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22: The Lecture Class Slowing Down to Keep Pace with the Lab
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23: Adding Another Digit of Accomplishment
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24: Fast Work or Good Work: The Teacher Has to Prioritize
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25: Trial And Error Being Applied
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27: When Systems Specifications Aren't So All Encompassing
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28: The Quest for Better School Laboratory Equipment Continues
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March
01: Adjustments Made to Deadlines and Specifications, Just Like In A Real Job
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02: Too Comfortable to the Point of Losing Respect
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03: When "Lessons" Are Divided Among the Students
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04: Students Forgetting Past Lessons
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06: When A Teacher Opens A Window He Closes A Door
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07: A Teacher Learning A Lesson One Term After the Fact
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08: Like Stage Mothers Getting First Night Performance Jitters
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09: Studying The Insides of Everyday Things
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10: Making the Most Out of One Time Learning Opportunities
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11: On The Way To Becoming Maze Experts, Theoretically
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13: Easy-Looking Tests Are Difficult And Vice Versa
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14: A Teacher's Leniency Has A Tendency to be Abused
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15: Duration of Project Greater Than Difficulty of Task?
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16: Teaching the Students Not to Think Sequentially
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17: Showing the Students the Heartbeat of the Computer
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18: A New Robot Task At Last
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20: Lecture As Supplement to Lab and Not The Other Way Around
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21: Other Problems of Working From Scratch
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22: Should A Teacher's Assignment Adjust to the Capability of the Class or The Other Way Around?
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23: When All The Students Look Like They Are Underachieving
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24: Is It Wrong To Ask The Students For A Little Intuition?
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25: Signs of the End - Of the Term
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27: Last Minute Efforts In The Students... Again
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28: Counters: One Step Down From And An Integral Part of Computers
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29: Mixing Academic Drive With Blood Lust
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30: Some Lessons That The Students Have Not Learned Despite Practice
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31: The Need for Constant Improvement In The Face of Changing Challenges
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April
01: Will The Students Adapt To A Change in Teaching Pace?
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03: More Ways The Students Get Around the Rules - Or Try To Unsuccessfully
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04: Do The Students Have a Right to Complain When They Didn't Know What They Were Getting Into?
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05: Last Minute Instead of Term Long Effort
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06: Looking for More Effort On the Part of the Students to Win and Get High Grades
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07: Giving Clues As To The Exam
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08: Students Not Taking What Is Given To Them
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10: The Reward System Not Working Perfectly
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17: Making It Easy For Students Who Arrive On Time - If They Arrive At All
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18: Students Should Know Second Chances Aren't As Easy As The First
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22: Immediately Wanting to Improve Things For Next School Year
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24: Giving The Students Chopsticks When They Expect to be Spoonfed
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25: When Third Chances Are Given With Pre-Conditions
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26: Slacking Off May Pay Off For The Moment, But Not In The End
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27: Not Knowing If My Students Passed Or Not
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28: Twice The Begging As Before To Up Just One Grade
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29: New Grading System Not In Favor of the Students Or the Parents
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May
02: Irreversible Consequences to Students' Actions - Or Inactions
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04: Not Rewarding Non Exemplary Student Behavior
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05: Good Class Behavior Equals Good Organizational Work Skills
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06: Analyzing Attendees Before and During the Training
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08: Admitting Ignorance Among Leaders Isn't Weakness
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09: The Students Should Run the Show
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10: Even People In The Real World Can Change Their Minds
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11: I Might Not Do Justice to Introducing My Co-Teachers
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12: Gut Reactions
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15: Some Emerging Patterns In Teaching for the Past Year
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16: Things New and That Don't Change for the New School Year
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17: Imperfect Implementation of Important Policies
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18: More Loopholes in the School Enrollment System
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19: Giving the Students A Tastes of the Work Life
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20: The Declining State of Educational Institutions in the Country
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22: Discriminating Among the Students This Early
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23: Still Getting Used to the One Lecture-Lab Grade System
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24: Getting More Students Than We Counted For
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25: Not As Ready For The "Real World" As The Students Thought They Were
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26: When What the Teachers Want Takes Second Stage to What The Students Need
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27: How Long My Lectures Would Last Without Numerical Representations
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29: Having To Deal With Students' Prior and Sometimes Incomplete Knowledge
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30: Facilitating Easier Requirements For the Students
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31: More Musical Classrooms
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June
01: I'm Over-Over-Loaded
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02: The Consequences of Always Having Hi-Tech Educational Facilities
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03: Student Performance Concerns and Apathy
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05: Students Working With Their Hands and Minds
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06: How Students React to Rewards
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07: Proof of Comprehension of Concepts Are Applications When the System Is Turned On Its Side
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08: Seeing the Students Get Their Parents' Money's Worth in Classes Paid and Attended
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09: Accelerated Students and Stalled Lessons
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10: Trying to Oil The Students' Mental Gears Rusted From Disuse
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13: Foresight and Efficiency of Engineering Students, or How They Should Be
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14: More Middle of the Term Adjustments
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15: Some of My Old Students Adjusting to My New Class Policies
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16: Having Poker-Faced and Non-Active Students
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17: Not Telling The Students When They've Worked Enough
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20: One Big Room Giving Way To Several Smaller Rooms Eventually
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21: Catching Up On Lessons and Assignments That My Students Have to Do
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22: Tolerance Thinner The More Time This Student's Around
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23: Building On Previous Topics Making the Lecture Faster
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24: Assumptions Made About Engineering Class Necessities
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26: Behind the Faculty Room Door Scenes
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27: The Teacher's Methods of Confirmation of Comprehension
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28: If The Students Ask Questions, The Teacher Won't Rush to the Advanced Topic
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29: Are Exams Better Scheduled From the Start of the Term?
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30: Giving Bread To Those (Students) Who Only Have Soup
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July
01: Difficult Exams Early In the Term, Then Becoming Easier
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03: What to Do With Students With Accelerated Work
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04: Maybe I Should Ask The Students How They Understand A Concept Before Clarifying To See If They Were Listening
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05: Lecture About All Concepts First, Then All Examples Afterwards?
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06: Do I Want The Best Type of Submission From the Student or Just Ones Passed On Time?
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07: A Time to Copy and A Time to Listen
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08: In Math and Engineering, Concepts May Appear In More Than One Subject
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10: Clarifying Verification of Theoretical and Experimental Values
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11: Not So Impartial Benchmarks
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14: Reinforcement of Previous Topics in Class
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18: When Lectures Become Just Second Priority
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19: Excuses Teachers May Make For Visible Mistakes
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20: Reverse Snobbery?
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21: Practice Apparently Still Makes Perfect - Scores, At Least
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22: Making Full Use of the Engineering Laboratory Time
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24: When the Lesson is A Review to Some But Completely New to Others
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25: So Much For Teaching The Students Responsibility
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26: Using More Than Equations in Problem Solving
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27: Meta Academic Concerns Cut Into Class Time
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28: Discouraging Students Not Paying Attention to the Lecture
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29: Not Fine Arts, But Might As Well Be - Maybe Coarse
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31: Adapting to A Different Procedure than What's In the Manual
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August
01: Students Asking For An Arm When Being Spoonfed
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02: People Might Be More Analytic When Reviewing Topics
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03: Complications Compounding In the Lab Set-Up
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04: Applications Bleeding Between Subjects the Students Are Taking
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05: Showing the Students Two "Roads" to a Goal and Letting Them Choose
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07: Ending the Experiments on an Easy Exercise
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08: Classes Dependent on External Factors That Are Unrealiable Such as Electricity
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09: A Student as the Center of One Universe
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10: The "Easy Way Out" Philosophy Showing In Students' Questions
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11: Is There A Minimum Requirement for the Students to Learn or Accomplish Per Class Period?
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12: The Limit of When the Teacher Has to Do Something About The Students Not Studying Enough - Or At All
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14: Double Grades for Doubly Important and Doubly Applied Concepts Learned
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15: Why Sometimes Second Classes Perform Better than First Ones
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16: Contrast Between Visual and Mathematical Acuity
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17: Students Doing Only The Least Effort, and Not Fast Enough
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18: Accomodating Both Spatial and Numerical Thinkers
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22: Choosing Between What the Student Knows Best and What's Easiest to Remember
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23: Comparing Students to Bart Simpson and the Hamster
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24: The Point Where The Teacher Stops Being Friend and Starts Being the "Enemy"
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25: Concepts the Students Should Know Backward and Forward by the End of the Term
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26: Too Many Examples Maybe A Little Too Late
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28: Won't You Come Into My Parlor with Clay Animation and Robots
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29: Could Be Subconscious Golden Rule Implementation
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30: The Difference Between What the Seller and the Buyers Think Is Cool
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31: Losing Steam In Waiting Days to Finish My "Angry" Tale
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September
01: When A Student Cannot Adapt to New Situations
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02: A Student Who May Believe Teachers Are Public Servants
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04: When A Student Is Organized In A Way Opposite A Teacher's Direction
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05: A Student Wanting An Easier Time Studying
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06: No Working Around Previously Set Limits
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07: It Takes More Work to Eventually Get Less Work
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08: Drop, Stop and Re-Enroll
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09: When Seniors Don't Feel the Weight of Responsibility
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11: What's the Portent on Starting on the Anniversary of a Tragedy?
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12: As Usual, Still Not Standing of Solid Ground on the First Week of Classes
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13: What Do Students Think of Teachers Who Lecture During the First Meeting?
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14: It's Like I Have One Continuous Class All Week
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15: Giving Short Task Completion Times with Secret Extensions
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16: Looking Up At the Teacher Heirarchy
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18: A Non-Declinable Substitution "Request"
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19: The Need to Use Technology to Focus the Students' Concentration
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20: Teachers Reuse Strategies Until They Fail to Work or Something Is More Efficient
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21: Compensating for Potential Student Laziness
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22: When Not to Follow A Textbook's Examples
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23: It's Like Having A Marathon of A Whole Season of A TV Show
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25: Don't Want to be A Lesson Plan Nazi
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26: Throwing the Text Out the Window In Favor of Sequential Learning
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27: Testing The Limits of the Trial and Error Method
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29: Showing the Rest of the School that Engineering Students Have Interesting Outputs Too
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October
02: Giving the Students A Choice From Several Relatively Difficult Exam Types
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03: Fewer Teachers, More Classes
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04: Making A New Type of Exam to Give to My Students
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05: Students' Bad Habits Compounding Regretful Commissions and Omissions
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06: Higher Education Answering to a Higher Calling
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07: Not As Resourceful Students As I Thought
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09: Some Crucial Concepts Not In the Students' Plan of Study
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10: More Detailed Computer Manipulation Revealed
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11: Learning to Read the Computer's Indicators
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12: Analyzing the Cause and Effect on Machines
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13: Students Trying to Get Points That Can't Be "Paid" For
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14: Giving the Students The Means to Communicate with Machines in Ones and Zeroes
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16: When A Recommendation Is Seen As A Threat
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17: Bosses Detect An Undertone That Wasn't There
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18: Emphasize One Concept and The Students Stumble on Another
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19: How Students Find Out What Parts of Their Circuit Are Working or Not
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20: Students Needing to Learn to Work within the Limits Given
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21: It's Like An A.P.B. Among Teachers of Notorious Student M.O.
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23: The Teacher Needing To Allow Different Solutions to Achieve the Task
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24: Performing Reverse Engineering on Complete and Working Sample Programs
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25: Going Forward, Going Backwards, Going Sideways and Standing Still
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26: Do The Students Have to Be Informed about Everything?
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27: Small Steps (In A Computer Program) Add Up to a Long Journey
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30: When Students Have to Learn to Not to Treat Everything As A Joke
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31: The Difference Between What Students Want and What They Get
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November
02: Better Ways of Gauging the Better Students
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03: Long Class Hours, Few Real Student Accomplishments
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04: Student Organizations Getting Dis-Organized
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06: "My Soul Comes First, Before Anything Else, Including Other People"
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07: Assigning Major Tasks to the Students Without Passing Through Intermediate Steps
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08: Curve Balls That Fate Throws At Even the Most Organized Schools
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09: School Science Class Concerns Are My Concerns
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11: Third and Last Part of the Disappearing Science Teacher Dilemma
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13: When Something Doesn't Work, Stop Using It and Take Another Path
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14: A Hollywood Dark Comedy Moment
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15: Malingering Is Part Mal or Bad and Part Lingering
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16: Learner-Centered, Excellence-Centered or Subject-Centered?
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17: Students' Teacher in Several Subjects Should Know More Than Others Their Workload for the Term
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18: A Student Like A Fly Banging Against A Closed Window
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20: Anything for A One Hundred?
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21: There Are Topics From Those Subjects That Are Taken For Granted in the Next Lessons, Which Is Why They Are Called Prerequisites
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22: Tongue Twistiness Determines Comprehensibility
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23: Proper Avenues for Dialogue
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24: Stages in Wireless Communication?
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25: The Advantage of One Over Many
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27: Scenes Behind the Stage
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28: On the Home Stretch of This Trimester
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29: Bad Luck This Term with Science Teachers
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December
02: There's No Student I Know Who Will Not Check Several Times the Veracity of News of Class Suspension Until They're Satisfied
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04: Academic Abortions
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05: Even In Schools It's Possible to be Educationally Disadvantaged
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06: A Student Who Seems to See Only In Black and White
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07: Like A Driver Who Takes Over A Race Car On the Last Lap
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08: Adjusting the Teaching Method for Second Time Students
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11: Organized and Supervised Tie Strengthening Times
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12: Some People Not Acting Out of the Box They've Displayed for Themselves
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13: The Teacher Isn't Always A Student's Friend
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14: How Does the Teacher Give All the Breaks Without Letting Them Know So They Don't Demand for More?
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15: Assessing The Students' Individual Computer Skills
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16: Students Should Accept Their Limitations
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19: Students Should Not Be the Ones to Say "That's Enough Work For This Subject This Term"
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20: Suspicious of the Scatterbrained
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21: Failure on the Part of the Student and On the Part of the Teacher
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22: Is Christmas About Beginnings and Endings, or Ongoing Cheers?
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