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The Co-dependent Can-Do Attitude: “Sure thing! I will have that for you in 10 days!”Muttered Martyrdom: “They better not be expecting solid code in ten lousy days”Time Traveling Quality Control: as soon as I’ve met my deadline I will document and test this and I’ll go through the security checklist…because Future Me always has plenty of free timeKamikaze Professionalism: “I used the language I am best at to build the objectively correct solution and I delivered it on time, ergo I am done. The fact that it is of absolutely no use to you is none of my business.”The Eidetic…Uh…Thingy: “I don’t need to use flowcharts or project planning worksheets or attend some cultish Agile circle jerk because I’ve got it all basically written in my head…as long as there are no interruptions and no one wants me to do anything else and I don’t encounter any technical roadblocks, I’ll crank this out in one sitting, ergo forgetting won’t even be possible…could you just remind me what that third requirement was that you had said was absolutely mission critical?”The Futuristic Spaghetti Robot: “I just have to build some snazzy little abstract interfaces or some OOPy crap like that, then I can instantiate 20 years of procedural spaghetti code like a champ. Like a boss!”Technical Promiscuity: “Thanks for learning Z+++ so quickly! Yeah we’re going with this new language instead though. It doesn’t have a name that you can say out loud really, it’s just a clicking noise you make with your tongue. It’s the future”

School rules vary from school to school and district to district, so these might not be true for all schools. Just all of the ones I’ve worked at:We cannot leave students unsupervised for even a minute. That’s why we’re on our phones sometimes… we’re chatting with our coworkers there, since we can’t do it in person, since we’re all stuck in our classrooms.If another teacher shows up to watch the class while your teacher goes to “make copies,” they’re probably just going to the bathroom. They texted the teacher who was on a planning period at the time to ask them to watch the class a minute. “I need to make some copies” is a code term for “my bladder is about to explode.”We have to count our students once we’re outside for a fire drill, to make sure we have them all. Losing a student during a fire drill is a quick way to get reprimanded.Sometimes, the firemen who are conducting the fire drill will grab a student from the back of the line and take them to the office, and wait to see if the teacher notices the missing student.Before copying a worksheet for the class, you have to make sure that it’s not copyrighted against that. A lot of those “summer workbooks” that your parents get at Barnes and Noble for you to work on over the summer… a lot of those are copyrighted specifically against teachers making classroom copies of those worksheets.Attendance-taking is a big deal legally. If you get nothing else done each day, you still need to make sure you took the attendance correctly. If a student ditches school, and you don’t notice and mark them “present,” and they get busted, there can be lawsuits. Attendance records are also sometimes subpoenaed for divorce/custody rights cases. It’s critical that those records are correct.

I can answer best for chemistry and physics classes as these are what I teach.I like http://www.phet.colorado.edu as they have lots of very good activities. Most are physics-oriented, but they have excellent simulations, models, etc., for physical chemistry.High School (Grades 9-12) Chemistry Activities, Lesson Plans, Worksheets & Handouts is another good site.Over the years I have tried various workbooks that I gotten from different publishers but have not been satisfied. I think looking online (search for "chemistry games for high school" or "physics games for high school") is better and cheaper. It is easier to pick the ones that work for your students.I generally don't want activities in which students simply repeat material which they have memorized. It is hard to find things like that, so often I make up my own jeopardy or bingo games.