2. I made a girl, who has a terminal disease in remission, feel guilty about earning bonus points.
3. I didn't keep organized book lists and probably lost fifteen books for my department.
4. I thought solving problems after school would work better than a corny joke.
5. I gave out several handouts with grammatical errors. Ok, I'm lying --many handouts.
6. I didn't do the required SAT prep one day a week during the last trimester, and I did it about every two weeks during the first two trimesters. I hate SAT prep and my students know it.
7. I was intimidated by and nervous around some students, and as a result, I made several snappy, rude comments that I would expect to hear out of the mouthes of students and not my mouth.
8. I quizzed my students on vocabulary words that I didn't (and still don't) know the definitions for.
9. After trying REALLY hard not to, I gave up on four students.
10. I had a student tell me today that she can't stop thinking and now she thinks in a way she never knew possible before because of my class.
I'm going to say it was a successful year.
11. I haven't lost my tendency to be overly optimistic sometimes.
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