#best lesson plan

[instrill]

Best Commerce, Business Studies and Economics Lesson Plans for B.ED all Semesters/Years students and teachers Class 9, 10, 11, 12 in English..

[deanmarywinchester]

I hate that it took a podcast for me to start noticing a specific type of journalistic irresponsibility but anyway. another W for “if books could kill” with Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri for making me aware of what they call “horse race coverage,” which they use to refer to elections but I think has broader applicability

their definition of it is when journalists only bother to write about elections in terms of who’s ahead or behind and why, rather than evaluating the merits of their policy proposals. Like, “Smith is leading by X% because his proposal to decrease the price of eggs is popular with the middle class” ok but will it work? we have a huge body of information on consumer prices, you have a megaphone that puts your voice in front of thousands of people: can you use Google Scholar and evaluate whether his policy will be effective instead of just telling me how that puts him ahead?

anyway this post is brought to you by an article saying of andrew cuomo’s support of bail reform, “critics say that it led to increase in crime,” which is just empirically not true, and it is fucking inexcusable for a NYT journalist to not google “effect of bail reform on crime rates” and read a single peer reviewed study.

[ivyblossom]

Lessons in Story: Blather

I've been on a journey with planning and outlining for a long time now, but as a former pantser, it still feels very fresh to me, and everything about it is surprising.

None of this comes naturally to me at all. Once again: when I say "lessons", I mean the lessons I have learned, not lessons of value to anyone else, you're probably better at this than I am. I'm very open to feedback and ideas on planning, this is foreign territory for me.

My biggest revelation about planning and outlining is that, after years of hating and dreading anything even remotely structured, it turns out that I really enjoy this part. It's ridiculous and fun.

My paradigm shift was going from thinking of it as some (ugh!) structured version of writing to it being an entirely different activity. I seems closer to daydreaming than to writing. It doesn't take from the experience of writing, it's adding a new, fun version of composing story that's just as creative and immersive and fun, and even more self-indulgent, it's just from a slightly different vantage point and is less gruelling. It's also easier to do when I'm tired, so I can even see it as something I can do when I don't feel like writing, so it's not even overlapping time-wise.

It's taken me a while to figure how to do this in a way that makes sense and feels good. This is what I've managed so far.

It's blathering. It has no order and no structure, and I'm not sure I even understand what's happening in this process. Maybe one day I will. It comes out as a mess of random thoughts and ideas. It is documented daydreaming.

There have been times when I would just keep all that in my head and have it fuel whatever I did, but that isn't a very reliable or predictable way to function, and it means I'm not making choices between options. So what I'm doing now is to just write it all down, which helps me see it and think about it some more. Once I write it down, it change. Is that weird?

The blather has no rules. It's total free-associating. I write down whatever I'm thinking about related to this story, anything that grabs my attention about it. Things that don't work or things I don't know, things I'm obsessed with, anything. And none of it is artful.

Every time I pick the document up again, I start at the top. I don't reread it. I just blather. I repeat myself. At first it's just bits and pieces of things and me droning on about characters and what I think they're worrying about and wanting, etc. etc. Blather is functional, I don't know why. It helps me make decisions and work through ideas. The ideas get bigger and deeper as I blather about them, and problems emerge and get solved.

At a certain point, the blather starts to coalesce into scenes or pieces of them. And then I start telling myself the story as I know it. Over and over. Eventually I can't tell myself the whole story, I get stuck on some part and spend days circling around it. Sometimes I start telling myself the story from the middle, or work backwards, or whatever appeals to me. But there starts to be a sense of order and linked events, and ideas arrive, spend time in the story, stick around or get kicked out. New day, I start again at the top and tell myself the story again. This is kind of weird and obsessive, but it feels like what I want to be doing, it's like a fidget toy or something.

When I do this enough, eventually I want to start lining up the stuff I know about what happens in the order it happens. I can do that in the document for a bit, but then it starts to get out of hand. Then I start wanting a specific tool that lets me put this in order without putting it in order. Every time I reach this point I try different tools, and none of them work the way I want them to. That might be because I want to do something but not do it at the same time. But that's the point where I want to lay it out in a more structured way, but the thing doesn't have a structure.

At some point, and I don't know what triggers this, but the thing untangles in a way that even though it's not complete yet, it becomes linear. I can line up scenes and it makes perfect sense, I don't need a weird tool. That's the point when I'm ready for a proper outline. I can't say I completely understand what's going on here, but this is what it looks like.

The blathering is so fun I keep doing it even once I've started a formal, structured outline.

That's blather. Maybe there's as better word for it. Maybe there's a better way to do it. I have no idea! But this is what I've settled on. At least it's fun! I'm really glad it's fun, because I only willingly do things that are fun. As I've said, maturity is not my strong suit.

[slowdrippingnoise]

i like rose actually hes full of Concepts. i like how leon could easily remind him of peony and of himself (personality, talented champion / older brother, beloved golden child) and i like how bede could also remind him of them/what his remark about seeing himself in bede could mean if taken as truth (ignored child, desperate to prove his worth / uncompromising confidence, needs to feel in control, perfectionistic) so he gives them both important roles to keep them around. very normal very well adjusted good job man.

swsh should have had 500 more lines of major npc dialogue. also leon and marnie should have talked about the whole being a symbolic king/princess thing. or she could talk to hop about it and he could talk about how he thinks leon feels about it which could be interesting also. even more economic fuckery talk i know its a sports thing but leon's Sponsor Cape drives me a little nuts. catch him between his own hopes/the needs of the league/rose's ideas specifically. he's been champion since he was like 10 right. something like that. im going back in time sneaking into the swsh writers room and taping up a big poster of N Harmonia. how soon we forget Boy King Prime. also pokespe was right rose should just be Objectively Correct about the impending energy crisis, his problem is that he tries to solve everything by himself by manipulating everyone around him, and is cool with putting the whole region in danger if he thinks it will Solve The Problem. his problem isnt being pro-nuclear power his problem is he thinks like a king. ideal swsh is anti-monarchy as well as anti-monopoly it would make more sense.

[flaming-toads]

Real question tho for tww17 and tww98 enjoyers!! Do you think Imogen and Dimity would be like extreme sports besties? Or would they become competitive rivals challenging each other with increasingly deadly activities?!

[ae-cha08]

Not every closed door is a bad thing. If God had not shut that door, we would have been satisfied to stay where we were.

Not every time a person walks away from us is a tragedy. God knows we won’t move forward without a push.

You have too much potential, too much talent, too much in you to get stuck where you are. He’ll put you in situations that make you stretch, make you grow, make you spread your wings. 🌸

[woodpengu]

Not every highly-skilled or highly-experienced artist is a good teacher.

This isn't meant as an insult to amazing artists - being amazing at one's craft brings value to the world and the times we live in. But choosing to start a youtube series on 'how to draw', or dedicating your tiktok to art tips because a bunch of fans asked you about it so much is succumbing to peer pressure.

Highly-skilled/-experienced artists don't owe anyone a lesson plan. They make cool art that the rest of us are all inspired and dazzled by because they do what they love and dedicate themselves to it. They're invested in their craft, and it shows. It oozes from their pores and into their work.

BUT!!! ... if you choose to take up the responsibility of teaching others a craft, learn how to teach. Learn how to reiterate specialized terms or techniques in a simple, easily-digestible way. Encourage yourself to be curious about what you may not know or what's given a differing perspective. Practice an active understanding of the difference between disliking something and critiquing technique.

It takes a special kind of mind to be a good teacher. Ask computer scientists... Most of the higher levels of educators are actually research-oriented and don't do well with teaching (there often isn't someone better suited to fit a teaching position at that level). Doesn't make them bad at their field or a bad person; just means teaching isn't their forte.

If you're an artist, be an artist. If you want to teach, learn how. If you don't want to teach, don't succumb to fan/peer pressure. You're allowed to admit teaching isn't your forte and point people in the right direction, even for the seemingly smallest of tips. I take it as a convenience when I ask a fellow how they did something and they point me towards the books they studied instead of trying to teach me with terms that don't register.

[theprissythumbelina]

The very funnest part of my job is calming down and distracting the frustrated parents of obviously neurodivergent children

[aquaquadrant]

See, you said we should make sure to have a lot of time to read this last chapter, but I wasn't expecting to need so much time that, when I started reading just after lunch, I would be interrupted only halfway through act two by my parents calling me for dinner. And I'm not a slow reader, certainly not (Even if I did have to take a mental wellness break of watching Ren wrangle armadillos between acts, but that was just half an hour).

I was not expecting it to be quite this long. That it made me cry though, that I did expect.

‘i was not expecting it to be quite this long’ YOU AND ME BOTH 😂⚰️

like ok i knew going into it that it’d be a lot bc there was a lot i wanted to cover, but was NOT thinking over 30k words long??? it’s ridiculous. but i’d already used every line in the song for chapter titles so i couldn’t split it up any more. c’est la vie. glad u enjoyed it tho!! 💃

[dummerjan]

tired. i've been nothing but tired anxious frustrated. and tired! did i mention tired?

[thetangibleghost]

I need to go. Store.

[msburgundy]

my potato bender has cured me

[loverboybrightsideghost]

i really do love practicing 🎻

[electryone-moon]

~IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT~

Of course you’re going to give up if your brain insists on turning every small task into a huge simultaneous equation

To be as clichéd as possible; Just fucking do the thing

[doctorwhoisadhd]

i think more general music classes should include punk rock / metal as a genre