A Tour of My Classroom at an ALTERNATIVE Public School

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@lilygdsn 9 ай бұрын

Rad setup!! This was a really interesting video, it's clear how much effort you've put into your classroom and how much you care about your students. At my high school we had a very hands-on science teacher that everyone loved. He almost always had "group tests" (ie. how can you problem solve and work wtih others rather than memorize facts), practical feild trips like going to the local park and coring trees, and ran Cave Club & a GIS class (which usually attracted an eclectic group of kids) to gather cave data for the forest service. Side note, is that a dyslexia friendly typeface you're using for you headings?

@TheQuietPartisLoud 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's OpenDyslexic! I'm dyslexic, and it helps a little bit. I know most fonts with good spacing help, but I'm partial to OpenDyslexic because I'm so used to it. All of my assignments use that font now.

@KO-lm7xn 9 ай бұрын

Wow. This is amazing, the level of passion you put into making your lessons fun and engaging is great to see nowadays. I'm from the UK and have loved engineering all my life but there was very few classes I could take in Highschool that actually let you problem solve and build.

@berkay8794 9 ай бұрын

This made my eyes tear up dude. You have a contagious passion for teaching. Let me tell you about my teaching experience :D I teach English in a private school that's more expensive than esteemed international schools (in a developing country). I tried to implement standing desks to help students' attention, also because I usually use drama or theatre to illustrate my points. They forbid me to do it because it created discipline problems. I used to use videos to teach them about a specific country in the last ten minutes, management completely banned videos in the classroom because a teacher just used to leave a video on for the whole class duration. I let a student not complete his study book because he was one of the students with severe ADHD and he actually couldn't, management started to check the books for completion and gave me crap for it, also I cannot use my own materials. Windows are exactly the height of the kids' heads so they can easily bump their heads into the corners if we open them. Doors are flaky and sharp in order to facilitate injuries (It happened. Some kid got his finger badly injured, I actually got a scar from a door.) stairs are made of marble and every day several students end up in the nurse's because they fell. Kids lockers are cheap and sharp. I hope you get more appreciation in the future, what you do is amazing and exemplary. I am sorry if this felt like a rant.

@robbailey9344 9 ай бұрын

You make me want to go back to school and have you as my teacher. Killing it, man!! Your passion for teaching clearly shows, even in this short walkthrough

@jeremydrake7222 9 ай бұрын

This was an amazing video. I had a robotics teacher like you, believed in doing instead of hearing. We need more teachers like you in this world, and I honestly believe it'd be a better place if there were.

@Zaffron-pc8xd 9 ай бұрын

man i remember the alternative school in texas, the teachers had such a passion for teaching and building trust with the kids

@TheQuietPartisLoud 9 ай бұрын

I think the label "Alternative School" is a real messy one, but also a great opportunity to subvert expectations. So, what do you think? Does my classroom seem particularly different? Or like many others? Let me know what you think!

@nathanf.4791 9 ай бұрын

The term "Adult High School" is more fitting. Due to these kids not fitting in the typical High School Environment. Myself would not have graduated high school without this type of opportunity. Props to you.

@improveclaysoil 8 ай бұрын

Nothing like I've seen and gives me hope for the future in a time when that's rare, keep it up.

@improveclaysoil 8 ай бұрын

Maybe teach seniors intro grant writing, super helpful skill

@chefexcellence9841 9 ай бұрын

I've never met you, but you're already my favorite teacher haha. The classes where I could get hands on and actually figure something out for myself always struck a chord with me. I reverse engineered a puzzle box in woodshop, built my foam glider into an RC plane in lifting principles, I just always got excited about actually doing something in class with positive, cohesive results. the satisfaction of watching your plane fly, and saying hey, I did that is just so cool and memorable.

@TheQuietPartisLoud 9 ай бұрын

No way, when I was a kid I did the same thing with one of those foam gliders!

@timidezza 9 ай бұрын

This was really interesting! Wish my sciences classes were this diverese. We usually only had books infront of us and youtube videos displayed on the wall. Its nice to see how much you enjoy teaching and how organize everything is. You seem like a cool teacher! :)

@TheQuietPartisLoud 9 ай бұрын

Thank you. I am glad to say I haven't touched a textbook in a loooonng time.