Tag: ZU
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End of a Chapter
(thanks for the pic, J!) Well, it is done. My time at the zoo is complete. Although I may have to make a couple of final trips out to campus, my responsibilities and work days are finished. It is surreal after seven and a half years to believe it is actually over. When I arrived…
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Field Trip to Mall of the Emirates
Every semester/term, we are encouraged to have some sort of outside co-curricular activity for the students. At the beginning of the semester, I organized a course-wide excursion to Ikea since we were doing a project around interior design. However, for the second trip, I decided it would be good for my students to have their…
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Happy National Day to the UAE
It’s National Day today – December 2nd – and this year is the 40th anniversary of the country’s formation. 40 years young and yet so surprisingly advanced. The Emiratis do love their country, I mean who wouldn’t when your leader gives pay raises just for being a national? Still, there are big plans this weekend…
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Happenings around campus
I haven’t been writing much about work because I try to pretend that it doesn’t exist when I am at home. However, there have been some interesting activities worth taking photos of…. [shashin type=”photo” id=”4384,4386,4387,4388″ size=”medium” columns=”2″ order=”user” position=”center”]
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Attempt at creativity with ZOO animals….
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ZOO: Teaching Moments 2
I have a special needs student in my class. She has physical trouble getting around the school, but intellectually she is quite adept. From day one, she has interrupted me while I was speaking to tell me that she didn’t have a handout since she hadn’t been to the first classes, or that she had…
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ZOO: Classroom Moments 1
Cultural Observation: Negotiations are done loudly and with great expression until finally a coin is tossed to determine a winner. My students have begun working on group projects this afternoon. I have given them a rare period to begin working. One of the tasks is to determine a country to focus on, but no group…
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ZOO: Teaching Moments 1
Issue 1: 5-minutes = late for both two hour sessions On Day 1, we discussed as a class the rule for coming in late to class. Instead of having a break half-way between the two 1-hour sessions, we go for 90-minutes straight. This means that the rule for being allowed 5-minutes to be late applies…
