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seventeensarmy · 4 years

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(3) Stuck With You (OT7!HybridAu)

Pairing: OT7xReader, Jungkook x Reader, soon Jimin x Reader x Jungkook; rest will come in the course of the story

Warnings: a tiny bit angst, fluff, toxic relationship to food, abuse (Like one slapp), flashbacks of JK´s past, tell me if I missed something

Words: 4.204

Summary: Jungkook´s shopping trip brought something home that wasn´t on the shopping list

A/N: I planned to upload this earlier, but TikTok came in the way, sorry

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Chapter three

“ You're older than me? But you are soo small ”

Taglist: @imezz @anxietylovesme @holaaaf @ot7purple @calling-dips-on-j-hope @greezenini @givebuckysomelove

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One year ago (Reader 20/ JK 20/ JM 22) "Kookie, can you buy me some of that matcha detox powder?", you asked your boyfriend who was about to leave to go groceries shopping. You sat on your knees on the couch, hopping to appear bigger so he would see you. Jungkook groaned and looked at you, "What do you need that for?" You looked passed him, thinking of your next words. It was powder to help you lose weight, with Jungkook forcing you to have at least to meals and one snack a day you felt like you gained weight. Weight that would have made your mum make you go on an ice cube diet for weeks. So you felt like your solution to lose weight should be taken better by the bunny than what you could have done instead. Jungkook wasn't stupid, he knew what you would use detox matcha powder for, but he wanted to see if you would lie to him. He started to inform himself about diets and work out methods as soon as he could, he wanted to better understand what you doing to yourself and he himself wanted to work on his body. He was trying really hard to get you to understand, that your way of viewing food, weight and your body was a toxic view that your parents taught you. And while you knew, that your parents weren't the best, you found it hard to let go of the way that things have been. "Baby, look at me. What do you want that for?" Jungkooks voice was gently, but firm enough for you to understand, that he wouldn't ask again. You looked at him and bit your lip, "Well first of all, it's really good for your body, it gets rid of all the bad stuff in your body.", you started and Jungkook scoffed, doubting that there would be too much 'bad stuff' in your body, seeing as you were living strictly plant based. Claiming you couldn't eat animals, when your boyfriend was last animal and you didn't want to hurt anyone. Jungkook had cooed when you told him that, thinking how cute his little dancer was, though that didn't stop him from sometimes enjoying a nice steak or fried chicken (not too often though, because he also had a strict diet, due to his rabbit parts). But not only did you live plant based, you also never ate any junk food and sweets. So what bad toxins were you keeping in your body that you needed to get rid of? "Is that all Baby girl? Just having a little detox?" You wanted to scream, you didn't want to lie to him, he would be able to tell right away, you knew that he knew, but you didn't want to see his disappointed face. You sighed defeated, "It also helps with weight loss" You didn’t know what to expect, would he yell? No, Jungkook never raised his voice at you, but he didn’t need to. He could voice his disappointment just fine with a calm voice. "y/n. We talked about this." Jungkook let out a tired sigh. You felt bad, biting your lip, you knew he worried about you, but you didn't really see any other solutions. Your mothers’ words burned too deep in your head. "I know Kookie, but, the competition is just a week away and Ive been eating a lot recently" you tried to tell him, stuttering. You hadn't noticed that he had moved from the door to the couch and was now kneeling in front of you. Jungkook furrowed his brows, what should he do. He saw your slouched position and how you were avoiding his gaze, he knew you were wary if his reaction, because now it was his move, you told him what he wanted to hear. "Okay" Jungkook breathed out, having decided on plan. "I'll buy it. But I'll keep it and you only get to take some after you ask me. Got it? And no other tricks." He was stern, but he figured, that this way he could help you easier. He just needed to slowly show you, that there was no need for such radical diets. He saw a documentary on eating disorders and while he was no expert, Jungkook realised that people suffering from it, often didn't even realise it or don't see it as abnormal behaviour. So he tried to reteach you, trying to destroy the ideas of beauty your mother gave you. Helping with and controlling your diet plan was a new strategy, but he was sure, it only could be better than the last. Over the years Jungkook had tried again and again to make you see your toxic behaviour towards food, sadly it often ended in arguments. Leaving you crying and Jungkook frustrated. You knew Jungkook didn't like how or what you ate and you saw the disappointment every time you turned down a new dish, because you didn't know how many calories it had. Your eyes met his and though you were happy, this win for you came with a lot of guilt and you almost told Jungkook he shouldn't buy the powder, then your mother’s voice reminded you, "It's important to look pretty, the judges will like that. So even if you can't dance, you can at least be pleasing to the eye" Jungkooks hand came to cup your face, "I love you, you know that right? And I only want you to be happy and healthy" you were looking into his eyes, nodding. Jungkook wanted to say more, telling you that he knew that being happy and healthy was lying in two different directions right now, but he knew that this would upset you, so he kept quiet. "I love you too Kookie, I know you want me to be happy and I'm happy whenever I'm with you" you smiled, turning your head to kiss the palm of the hand; that was cupping your face. Jungkook pulled you down for a real kiss before standing up and grabbing the shopping bag again. "I'll be back in like an hour or so okay? Be good, love you" Jungkook yelled and left the house. You knew what he meant when he asked you to be good, don't train. You already practiced for hours today, so he would expect you to rest for the remaining day. And you found yourself listening to him, being actually exhausted from dancing all morning. You grabbed a book from the study your dad used to work in; you changed it into a reading room purely. There were beanbags and a bunch of pillows and two large shelves full of books. Since the weather was nice you decided to read in the garden, sitting down on the Hollywood swing in the back of the garden. Jungkook was walking to the supermarket. It wasn't unusual that he was the one going out for groceries; you were often too tired after your training to do anything. The bunny was sure that part that was due to you not eating enough, he noticed how after a tough day you would shakily sit down and sip your water. He hated how he felt like he couldn't help you. He walked past your elementary school; he remembered how he would always wait for you in your garden. Sometimes you brought your homework with you and explained what you had to do to him. He couldn't always follow the explanation of an eleven year old, but he was thankful for trying. Nowadays he had also started to study with you. Jungkook couldn't do the maths that you could, but he wasn't too worried about that, he saw that school didn't always teach you what you needed to know for life. Best example was biology, why would you, a dancer, need to know about photosynthesis? He didn't understand why they would teach that, they should have teaches you that eating is fu*king important. He crossed the streets, Busan was pretty, he thought. You would be soon, after finishing school in six months, there was nothing keeping you here. Both of you had a lot of bad memories here. You, from your family. Jungkook from his days on the street, he can't really remember if there was a time before he was on the street. He never met his parents, or at least he can't remember them. He also can't remember ever having an owner before meeting you, he just knew the streets and it wasn't easy. The nights were often freezing, he remembers breaking into a shed one night, because rain was pouring down and the bridge he sometimes slept under was flooded. The next morning he was woken up by a screaming woman, who then quickly proceeded to kick him out, yelling something about calling the cops. After he met you, life became easier, but not completely. In the beginning he still didn't have a place to sleep, it had taken you some time till you realised, that he needed some place to sleep. Jungkook wasn't mad that you sometimes kept forgetting to unlock the shed in the back of your garden; you were young and had your own problems. But as soon as you had realised you came running to him, apologising and bringing a bunch of food for him. When it got colder you started to steal some of your dad´s overalls and took pillows and blankets from the guest rooms, your parents never bothered to enter. All so Jungkook wouldn't freeze. As soon as it got cold you also always started to bring him some traditional Christmassy snacks and tea. Jungkook couldn't believe it when you stood in front of him on December 25th, with a present in your hand. "It's not much, but I thought you'd like it. I got it myself” you said proudly and when Jungkook opened it, he saw a pair of headphones. He was excited that he got a present for the first time, but he was confused what to do with it. He didn't own anything he could plug them into. You noticed this and handed him another box, in it was an ep3 player. Jungkooks eyes grew wide, "Why would you gift me something like that?" You grinned, "Because I know you'd like it" Jungkook swore he could have started crying then and there, but he opted for pulling you into a bone crushing hug. That night he fell asleep, listening to the music you downloaded onto the player. Jungkook kept walking, thanking whoever was responsible for him ending up with you. While he was walking he realised, that there was your old dancing studio on the way. He remembered the time, where the teacher didn't come to your house and someone had to drive you here, your mother never wanted to do it, so she hired a private trainer for you, who came over. Sometimes he would even pick you up from school, so you could immediately start practicing; those were the days when you were too tired to even wave Jungkook who was living in the shed in your garden. You told him that having a private teacher had a lot of pros, seeing as the teacher had his whole attention on you, but that also meant that you couldn't dance with you friends anymore or have a group play, from that point on, you always danced alone. Jungkook stopped at the window of the studio, watching the children dance. As he continued to walk, he saw someone dance in the back. Jungkooks eyes grew big, that was a hybrid dancing. He tried to make out what kind of hybrid though, probably cat by the way he elegantly jumped, his bushy tail helping him keeping the balance, but a beanie covered his ears, so he wasn't 100% sure. Before he could continue to walk, Jungkook saw how an elderly man came up to the hybrid, starting to yell at him. Jungkook couldn't tell what they were talking about, but he guessed it was about the hybrids dance, because the man kept showing him with gestures what the hybrid should do. The hybrid said something; his tail was slowly swaying from side to side, meaning he was getting angry. Jungkook had his fair share of meet and greets with stray cats, so he knew when to back off. The man didn't apparently, because faster than Jungkook could track the movements of the man’s hand was the hybrids face slapped and turned to the side. The man had slapped him, the hybrid stood stiff. Jungkook didn't know what happened next, because something wet hit him, then again. He looked up to see dark clouds forming in the sky, he cursed and started to walk quickly to the store, knowing you didn't like him being out when it rains or starts to get dark. As he arrived at the shop he pulled out the shopping list you wrote him and he marvelled again how pretty your handwriting was. He grabbed the veggies that you needed for dinner tomorrow and decided he would try to prepare steak again. The last time he tried to make it, it ended up being really though and he couldn't even chew it properly. He grabbed to already cut steaks, in case he would ruin one again and headed to the next aisle. The shelf in front of him was full with protein and weight loss powders, how was he supposed to know what to buy. He sighed and texted you, if you had any specific wishes. While he waited for your reply he continued to stroll through the market, grabbing some snacks, dips and frozen berries that you could use to make smoothies with. When you didn't answer after ten minutes he decided to just grab something himself. He studied the content of the boxes and compered them, because he still didn't want to just grab anything, when it was you who would consume it. Jungkook was a bit worried and annoyed when you didn't even answer, after he was already on his way back home. It didn't help his mood that the rain was still pouring down. Jungkook pulled his hood deeper, regretting that he bought so much, that he was now carrying five shopping bags. It was starting to get dark and there was almost no one on the streets, that why Jungkook was surprised to see someone sitting on the ground. He scoffed at first, why would someone sit outside in the ground while it was raining. When he walked closer he recognised that the building the person was sitting in front of was your old dance studio. And then he realised who that person was, it was the hybrid who got slapped. Next to him a small bag and Jungkook put two and two together, not thinking much before coming to a halt in front of the hybrid. The hybrid immeasurable looked up, hissing at Jungkook and Jungkook quickly understood why. His hood covered his ears and the rain probably washed most of his scent away. He slowly pulled his hood down, revealing his bunny ears and the hybrids position changed. "What do you want?" asked the hybrid a bit annoyed, but Jungkook didn't let himself be irritated by that, he had seen that the hybrid had a bad day. "I- I was wondering if you are alright? I saw you dancing earlier. I also saw what that man did." Jungkook didn't sound as confident as he wanted to, but while he was speaking he realised that he had no idea what he was even doing. The hybrids eye grew wide, "You saw?" Jungkook felt guilty as he looked into the hybrids eyes. Should he have done something? He couldn't have just walked in there and told the man off, maybe if he was a human, but not as a hybrid, he would have been probably slapped too. "Yeah.. I was passing by when I saw. Did he kick you out?" Jungkooks eyes landed on the bag next to the hybrid, "Gee, what gave you that impression?" the hybrid scoffed sarcastic, but quickly caught himself, "He was unsatisfied with my dancing for a while now, I guess me talking back didn't really help my cause. Who knows, maybe he's right" the way the hybrid talked remembered him of you, before his mind told him otherwise his heart already spoke for him. "Do you want a place to stay? It's supposed to be raining all week. Trust me; it’s not fun looking for shelter in the rain." The hybrid narrowed his eyes, looking for a sign, that this could be a trap, but he only found Jungkooks sincere eyes. The hybrids gaze softened and he agreed, he too thought it would be hard to find a place to sleep, so when a nice bunny hybrid offered shelter he wouldn't say no. "Great!" Jungkook smiled his bunny smile, "I'm Jungkook, by the way. And since we have the same destination, how about you take one or two of the shopping bags?" The hybrid stood up and Jungkook smiled as he saw, that the man in front of him was smaller than him. The hybrid pulled off his hat, combed quickly through his blond hair and put the beanie back one. Jungkook saw that the hybrid in front of him a cat was, which should have made him feel unsafe, but right now Jungkook could only focus on his dripping wet clothes. It must have been an hour since he left you at home and you also still didn't text back. The cat took some bags, before looking at Jungkook, "I'm Jimin" The men walked in a quick pace back to your home, doing some light small talk. "You're older than me? But you are soo small" Jungkook exclaimed, earning an evil glance from the man next to him which made him shut up real quick. They didn't have long till they reached the house when Jimin spoke up again, "So your owner..." Jimin realised that Jungkooks owner probably didn’t sent him out to get groceries and a new hybrid, he didn’t want the younger one to get in trouble, but when he saw a loving smile growing on the bunny’s face he relaxed a bit. "Oh y/n! She's amazing, she'll be surprised when she sees us both, but I'll talk to her. She won't mind you staying with us, we have more than enough room at the house" Jimin wondered how the house would look like if Jungkook said, that the house was big. His last owner lived in the tiny flat above the dance studio, so Jimin couldn't imagine how a spacious house would look like. Now that he saw Jungkook up close he recognised that the clothes he wore were from pretty big and expensive fashion labels. Jimin couldn't deny it, Jungkook was pretty handsome, he could imagine how the bunny would look under him. "It's just around the corner", Jungkook said and Jimin looked at his surroundings, they were definitely in the more wealthy part of town and Jimin started to think about how you would be. Jungkook said you were amazing, maybe you were a lawyer or a business woman, and you were probably pretty busy if you sent Jungkook for groceries. He imagined a woman in her thirties maybe, you would have to be pretty rich to be here. Jungkook opened the gate to the house and Jimin looked amazed. It was a two story building, not necessarily a mansion, but big enough that Jimin understood why Jungkook said, that space isn't an issue. They walked through the front door to be met by silence. "She's probably sleeping" Jungkook said as he took off his shoes and Jacket, telling Jimin he would take his Jacket so they could dry it. Jungkook explained Jimin were the kitchen was and asked him to put the groceries there while he sorted out their drenched jackets. Jimin was amazed as he walked through the house, almost scared to get to close things in case he broke them. There was a sculpture in the entrance hall that he was sure cost more than his last owner would make in a year. He looked at the pictures in the hall, almost everyone had a small girl in it, he decided that this was probably the daughter of y/n. He smelled the place, but Jungkooks was the most prominent, though he could make out something sweet, which alone gave him a comfortable feeling already. "Yah, you're slow" came Jungkook from behind, carrying the rest of the bags. They quickly sorted the food in the kitchen, well more like Jungkook did that and Jimin was amazed by how many things they had in the kitchen. "Okay, you should meet y/n real quick then you can have a shower", Jungkook said looking at the older who nodded, a bit nervous. There was a chance that you would tell him to go, he looked out the window, it just stopped raining, but that would only be for today. "She should be in the living room, I looked in the bedroom already" Jungkook mumbled and walked with big steps to the next room, only to find it empty. Jungkook groaned and threw his head back, exposing his neck, hut Jimin shouldn't focus on that, y/n was missing apparently. Not for long though, because the second Jungkook saw the open garden door he huffed annoyed. "She better pray she only just went out now and did not fall asleep in the rain. I swear to god" there were a few more curse words and Jimin looked at Jungkook, why would he talk like that about his owner? It's not like the bunny could actually do something. But Jimin was even more confused when Jungkook came back with the girl from the pictures. That couldn't be y/n the owner, you were so young. Your sweet scent filled the room, but it didn't match your whiny tone or Jungkooks mad face. "Kookie", you whined, curling further into his arms, as he was carrying you, your clothes were wet. You had fallen asleep on the Hollywood swing and had luck, that it was partially covered, so you weren't completely exposed to the rain. "Don't 'Kookie' me, baby. I told you to be good didn't I? And where to I find you? Outside, completely soaked and asleep" Jimin turned his head to fast he swore he got whiplash. 'Baby'?! Jimin had the feeling this wasn't really an owner-pet situation, the way Jungkook spoke, even if it was low, because you were still sleepy, made Jimin want to drop to his knees. Which would never happen of course, seeing as A) Jungkook obviously already had someone and B) Park Jimin would never fall to his knees to submit to someone. You opened your eyes to look up to Jungkook and pouted, "I was good. I was reading, it's not my fault I fell asleep, I wasn't planning on it" Jungkook chuckled quietly at how whiny you sounded at the aspect of not being a good girl. He quickly kissed you, forgetting the cat that was looking with big eyes, only as he sat you down, he realised he should maybe make you aware of your new guest. "Baby, there is something I should tell you. On the way back, there was a small incident, that lead me to take a hybrid with me" he carefully watched your reaction, while Jungkook was pretty much in charge, this was still your house and in a way he only had power because you let him. He knew with other people it wouldn't be like that. You blinked slowly, "Wait a hybrid? Another bunny?" you asked him, before your eyes found Jimin and quickly realised, that he was not a bunny. "He has nowhere to go, baby. You know we have enough room", Jungkook continued and you nodded, "A serious incident?" You asked and both men nodded. "Okay, stay as long as you need. I'm y/n" A smile grew on both men’s faces and the cat quickly introduced himself as Jimin. After that you and Jungkook showed him his new room and the bathroom he could use, before leaving him on his own. In your shared bedroom you removed your clothes, shivering in the cold, quickly jumping into the shower with Jungkook, who started to massage shampoo in your hair. You lean back and enjoy the sensation, "Such a good girl" he praised, "Letting someone in need stay here. My little dancer has such a big heart. Love you" you didn't know, why he was thanking you for letting Jimin stay, as if you would let him back on the streets. You smiled up at him, "My big bunny saved him in the first place didn't he?" you asked, only to sneeze immediately after, Jungkook groaned. "Of course now you're getting sick. Because you just had to fall asleep in the rain", he complained, but you both knew that in the end he didn't mind taking care of you.

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threeletterslife · 4 years

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→ summary: Excelling in every school subject, acing every math test and conquering the academic world is something you do as easily as breathing. As your residential social outcast nerd, you live rather as a recluse, talking to almost no one except for your dear ol’ cousin and that sweet boy in a few of your classes—Jungkook? was that his name? Befriending your ʰᵒᵗ AP stats teacher was the last thing on your high school senior agenda…

→ genre: 90% fluff, 8% crack, 2% angst | teacher!au & f2l!au

→ warnings: profanity, kissing/making out, the yikes of being friendzoned

→ wordcount: 5.7k

You've never really thought about it before but now you realize that teachers do have a life outside of school.

They don't just sleep under their big, teacher desks at night and pop up in the morning right before the first bell rings. You know now that teachers, although with so much authority and intellect, are just humans—they have feelings, they have a life and they can also be your friend.

You beam as you look at your teacher as he lectures. A friend he was...

Your eyes shift up and down Jimin's figure and man, was it too sweet for your eyes. He's so good looking. Actually, even that was an understatement.

Your teacher's tight, white button-up shirt fits his figure just perfectly as his tie sit handsomely on his broad chest. His black jeans look strained on his muscular legs, and your eyes start moving up to settle specifically on his thighs. Goddamn.

Jimin pushes up his glasses (that he only wears in a classroom setting) and that motion draws you in to study his ethereal face. Your breath hitches as you marvel at his wide, almond eyes, adorable nose and those soft, plump lips. So beautiful, so surreal, so...

"Y/N? Y/N. Y/N!"

You jump a foot in the air. "Huh, what?" you shout, startled out of your mind. You know you probably sound like some twelve-year-old caught with porn and you mentally scold yourself for sounding so off-guard.

It gets worse when everyone in your math class laughs at you and you can feel your cheeks turning red with embarrassment.

"I asked you a question," Jimin says as he points to a problem on the board.

You've always noticed that your teacher never ever cuts you slack for being his friend; he doesn't show favoritism, preferring to treat everyone quite equally, no matter how bad someone might take an L on his test. You always thought that was honorable of him, but now, you kind of wished he'd leave you alone to die in your ocean of humiliation.

Palms already sweaty from all the unwanted attention on you, your eyes shake as you squint at the problem. It's hard to focus on the numbers. "Oh shit," you mutter under your breath, but you've always been a loud mutterer.

Everyone laughs again.

Uneasy sparks blaze in your stomach. You hate how everyone is watching you, waiting and listening for anything out of place to ridicule your every move.

But you take a deep breath and the math problem seems to clear up in your vision. It's an easy one, thank god.

"22 pi over 7," you squeak quickly, ducking your head under.

"Hm? Speak a little louder, Y/N," Jimin says as he adjusts his glasses, craning his neck towards you as if he couldn't hear you.

Goddammit, Jimin.

"22 pi over 7!" you yell in the stupidest and shakiest voice ever to be heard by mankind.

Finally, the fire in your stomach burns out when Jimin nods. "Correct," he chuckles slightly, his eyes glinting a bit. " Try not to daydream too much, Y/N. Even geniuses need to pay attention."

The fire is back and hotter than ever, except it's not only in your stomach, it's everywhere in your body. So. Fucking. Humiliating.

Trying to cool yourself, you set your head down on the desk, looking at your shoes as if those dirty, black Watt Star Converse were something actually worth looking at for more than half a millisecond.

Damn. I used to never get distracted... What the fuck is wrong with me?

After school, you trudge to your math teacher's classroom, still embarrassed about the incident earlier. When you walk in, Jimin's erasing the whiteboard, his back facing you.

As quietly and quickly as possible, you set your stuff down at your desk in the front of the classroom and sit. I will not initiate conversation. He's gonna hate me for getting distracted during class.

But when your teacher turns around, he laughs warmly, eyes scrunching up in the way that you love most.

"Y/N, why so quiet today?"

You flinch. "Oh, uh, no reason." You always sound so suspicious when you lie to Jimin.

"C'mon, you look disturbed," your friend says as he sets the whiteboard eraser down, abandoning it to walk towards you. "What's the matter?"

Oh, you know, just simply embarrassed that I think my friend, my teacher is hot and got fucking distracted over his goddamn body during his class.

But you can't say that.

"Oh, um..." you trail off, racking your brain for a good excuse. But as smart as you are academically, you're as stupid as a guppy when it comes to making plausible excuses. "I'm on my period."

You cringe the moment the words leave your mouth. Why, Y/N, why the fuck—

You want to crawl in a hole when Jimin raises his eyebrows in question. "Oh," he says. You swear you see his face flush pink as he turns his back towards you again, walking towards his messy desk. "Did it start today?" he asks.

Okay, what now?

Now it's your turn to flush pink; you didn't think Jimin would ask questions about your fake female problems. "Uh, yeah," you lie. "The cramps distracted me." Feigning pain, you try to convincingly grasp your stomach.

Jimin looks up at you from his desk, his silky black hair falling loosely over his twinkling eyes. To your surprise, he's smiling. "It isn't the first time I heard that excuse, Y/N. I know what you're really like on your period, remember?"

Well, shit. You did remember, you had just hoped he didn't... But it was your darn luck that he did. What did you expect from your intelligent teacher?

Face steaming, you huff. "Oh, whatever!"

Jimin only laughs, his eyes nearly disappearing as his full lips open up to a breathtakingly beautiful smile. You gulp. There's no doubt about it.

You're crushing on your teacher; he's much more of a distraction than your period will ever be.

"Operation help Ji—I mean, Mr. Park starts now!" you announce as the members of your math club cheer loudly.

"I don't know what kind of fucked up nasty humans were mean to our teacher, but we're totally gonna show them!" Nicole declares, Sarah and August agreeing aggressively by her side.

"But the question is... how?" Jungkook asks shyly, scooting closer to you.

Very aware of his movement, you slightly squirm, but pretend nothing happened. "I was thinking of a math tutoring club? For anyone who wants tutoring or is failing the class," you say. "And that way, if asshole parents complain again, we'll be able to say that Mr. Park did everything he could to help them—he has a fucking club dedicated to passing his class!"

"Ingenius as usual," August laughs.

"And when would we start this club?" Sarah asks.

You grin, your eyes sparkling with ambition. "If we can, tomorrow."

"No, no, no!" you practically scream, hitting your favorite pencil against a packet of math problems aggressively. "For the last time, you can't divide x to get an answer! You're gonna lose solutions! Do you want to lose solutions? Do you want to lose that A?"

The teen you're tutoring looks about ready to cry but you honestly feel no remorse. She had been constantly checking her goddamn text messages, giggling over quite inappropriate texts about Jimin. It makes you sick.

If she thinks Jimin's so fucking hot, why doesn't she at least try to be good at math?

"Hey, hey, Y/N, calm down," a familiar, silvery voice calls.

Jungkook.

"I'm trying!" you protest, flinging up your hands.

Jungkook laughs, sliding into the chair next to you and looking at the girl you were tutoring.

"What are you having trouble with?" he asks the girl in such a silky, smooth voice that if someone told you he was an angel, you'd believe them.

"Everything!" the dumb girl wails.

You roll your eyes.

"Hey, hey, then let's start from the very beginning, okay?" Jungkook soothes, smiling softly.

Goddamn, I wish I was that patient.

You just start to zone out as Jungkook literally reteaches this girl how to factor. You honestly wonder how she even passed elementary school. But then again, you have to admit you're a little jealous that this girl has so many friends to text. Yet you'd rather be smart than be popular—that's just how you roll.

You pause. But it's not like you don't have friends. You just don't have that many. And I actually like all the friends I have for once...

You don't remember falling asleep when a large, warm hand gently shakes you awake. Your groggy eyes open to see Jungkook, a goofy smile plastered on his face. "Tired, Y/N?" he chuckles.

The girl he's tutoring rolls her eyes. "Hmph. She yells at me for checking my messages but she does something even more unproductive," she grumbles.

Oh no. You did not just wake up to deal with attitude. You're not gonna have it. "Excuse me, but while I'm out here mastering linear algebra, you don't even know how to factor. Guess you had one too many hours of texting, huh?" you snap.

"Dayum," Jungkook mutters under his breath. He casually holds his hand out for a high-five, which you do, extremely dramatically.

"For your information, I know how to factor now," the girl huffs.

"For your information, that's a required skill for fifth graders," you bite back. "In addition—"

"As hilarious as this is," Jungkook interrupts, placing a hand on your arm, "You should calm down. It's a tutoring session, not a roasting session."

You sigh as the girl practically drools over your friend.

"Sure, Jungkook, sweetie. Thank you so much for your help so far," she giggles, flirtingly twirling her hair with her slender finger.

"Yeah, whatever," you reply as you feel Jungkook's hand slipping off your arm, the warm heat now gone.

Jungkook goes back to teaching the girl, oblivious of her seducing attempts. You roll your eyes as you look around the tutoring club—the turnout was better than you expected, honestly. For the first time in a classroom, however, you feel lost. You're not the best at teaching, (to be exact, you're the worst). Your patience is shorter than your height, (which is saying a lot), but everyone else in the math club seems to be teaching naturals.

Feeling a little guilty you can't do much to help out, you start to play with your pencil, twirling it around and doing cool tricks that you've accumulated over the years. But of course three minutes in, your hand loses grip of your writing utensil and it flings off, hitting the ground and starts rolling away from you.

Sighing irritably because you have to physically move to go get it, you stand up from your chair, crawling on the floor to reach your pencil. "Found you, you idiot," you tell your blue oxi-gel when you hear a light laugh coming from above you.

Facing forward, you come face-to-face with a pair of knees covered with smooth, black material. Looking up, you see your teacher smiling down at you.

"Were you actually talking to your pencil?" he teases, face set with a brilliant grin.

"I... uh..."

"God, what is this?" Jimin asks as he looks around his classroom filled with students. "Y/N, are you organizing a cult?" he whispers with a full grin plastered on his face.

"What no!" you protest as Jimin helps you stand up. "It was kinda supposed to be a surprise but..."

"It's a math tutoring club," Jungkook chimes in. "We're helping students reach that A, you know?"

"You guys made a tutoring club for me?" your teacher says, placing a hand to his heart. "I'm about to burst into tears."

You chuckle at Jimin's dramatized actions. "Well, no one deserves mistreatment. Ahem, especially not body objectification," you say as you glare at the girl Jungkook's tutoring. She rolls her eyes.

"Awww," Jimin coos. "You guys are amazing. You know what? We're ordering pizza, my treat!"

People cheer so loud your ears physically hurt.

You sigh out, clutching your full stomach as you slide into the shotgun seat of Jimin's nice car. "Damn... Since we already ate, does that mean we're not eating dinner at your house tonight?"

Jimin chuckles lowly. "Why? Wanted to go to my house?"

Your cheeks blush red as you shake your head aggressively. "No! I was just saying..."

"Well, I mean, we didn't have dessert yet, didn't we?" Jimin suggests, smiling. His fingers softly brush against yours as he reaches for your seatbelt, buckling it for you. "You always forget to wear your seatbelt, Y/N," he laughs. "You never know when I might fuck up on the road."

"Hmph!" you say, crossing your arms over your rapidly being chest. "Stop babying me! I was gonna put it on this time!"

"That's what you say every time," Jimin chuckles as he starts his car with a press of a button. "Now, cupcakes or brownies?"

"Huh? Um, cupcakes?"

"Great! We'll stop by the market to get some ingredients. We're going to learn how to bake!"

Oh no. Why did that sound like a disaster waiting to happen?

But surprisingly, it was a miracle waiting to happen. You stuff your face with aesthetic, black frosting, occasionally biting at the soft, plush bread. "To think we can bake cupcakes but not cook ramen right the first time," you chuckle.

"To be fair, we actually used directions," Jimin says, neatly slicing up his cupcake to eat piece by piece.

You scrunch your nose. "You look like a prince who's too snooty to eat with his own two hands."

"Or maybe I want to be hygienic? You know, unlike you," Jimin teases as you huff in response. Jimin pokes at you, making you turn to him in exasperation.

"What?" you sigh.

"I dunno... I never really got a chance to thank you..."

You raise your eyebrows, thoroughly confused. "I mean, but it was a team effort..." you try to say modestly. "Besides, I didn't do much of the teaching. I mean can you believe this girl didn't know how to fac—"

Jimin rushes in for a hug, knocking the wind out of you—you lose all train of thought, you lose your voice and all sense of functionality. All you can hear is your heart beating wildly in your chest and Jimin's steady breaths against your ear.

"Y/N... Thank you," he whispers, gripping you tighter. "I know it was you who came up with the idea. And I just—I'm so touched. When I told you my problems, I only expected you to listen, maybe, I don't know, sympathize? But you took my problems and found a solution, putting it into action. No one's ever done that for me before... I don't even know what to say..." your teacher trails off, still hugging you tightly. "I'm emotional, I know... But I almost broke down crying when I saw you and your friends hosting this club... all for me."

Your brain turns into mush at Jimin's heartfelt confession, and you can't help but hug him back, burying your face into his shoulder. Words can't seem to make it past your mouth—you can't afford to ruin the moment by saying something completely stupid.

But that's when you feel it. The rapid thumping of a heart. Except it's not yours—it's beating faster than yours.

It's Jimin's.

You walk into Jimin's class slightly earlier than usual, your phone pressed against your ear as you bob your head up and down, staying silent for a few seconds and then talking away.

"I know, I know, I miss you too, Jin," you say just as you slide into your comfortable seat, slipping your backpack off your aching shoulder.

"Yeah, I know, I love you too. Of course, I'm still alive!" you huff, rolling your eyes. "And no! I didn't burn the house down... yet. No, we don't eat ramen daily—we eat it every other day," you protest.

You're quiet again as Jin gives you a piece of his mind.

"Yes, I know ramen's bad for me," you sigh. "Fine. We'll try to make salad or something today. Mhm. Yeah. Yes, I'm in his class right now. No, Jin! I can't just hand my phone over to him, are you out of your mind? You can call him on his phone at some other time."

You sigh loudly as your cousin rambles on the phone. "Wait. What?!" you suddenly shriek, causing a few early-comers in the class to stare at you in shellshock. Quickly lowering your head in embarrassment, you aggressively grasp your phone with both hands. "What do you mean you're going to be away for another month?" you whisper angrily. "Are you serious? Why does the drama team have to be so good?"

Jin chuckles on the line as you pout. "I know, congrats and all but you've been away for too long. Stop teasing me, I just miss you!" you huff.

Your cousin attempts to explain himself as you sit through it all, nodding your head occasionally. "Okay, then," you say in a sad, defeated tone. "I guess, good luck... Anyways, I've got a test this period, gotta fly." You pause, frowning. "Of course I studied! Who do you think I am?! Yeah, well thanks, I'm pretty confident. Mhm. Yeah. Have fun. Love you too. Yup. Bye." Smiling softly, you end the call with your cousin, slipping your phone into your backpack to replace it with your lucky pencil and eraser. There, now you're completely ready for the math test.

From the corner of your eye, you see Jimin, watching you. When he catches your sight, he gives you a small smile paired with a discreet thumbs-up. Your heart flutters.

Gosh darn diddly dang.

Ever since that night you felt his heart beating wildly in his chest, you can't help but wonder if maybe, possibly, hopefully, you're not in a one-sided crush. It was pretty plausible Jimin had always been so caring because he liked you back—either that or he majorly friendzoned you.

The annoying school bell blares, throwing you out of your thoughts, and as if exactly on cue, your teacher stands up from his desk, taking graceful steps to the front of the class. He clears his throat to gain the attention of still-rowdy students. "I hope everybody's prepared," Jimin says as he shifts from the weight of stacked tests. "If you studied polar curves as I said, you'll be fine for the unit test."

A low murmur fills the class as your peers start to panic.

"What the fuck is a polar curve?"

"Shit, I don't even know what unit this is!"

"Definite integrals, you shithead."

"Well goddamn, I'm gonna fail again."

You cock your head. Yeah, definite integrals might be challenging at first, but they weren't hard—it just required a lot of practice. But something told you most of your classmates didn't even know how to spell 'practice.'

As Jimin passes the tests out, you hear students groan from their first glance of questions.

"No noise, no talking!" your friend reminds his students. "If you need extra scratch paper, pencils or erasers, they're up here in the front; you know the drill. Good luck to you all!"

But you can barely hear your teacher as you're already racing to finish up a problem on the exam. You've figured long ago that Jimin's test questions were always in order from hardest to easiest—which explains why most kids rarely finish. You, on the other hand, learned to immediately flip over your tests and work your way from the back to front.

You don't hear anything, nor do you see anything except for the all too familiar graphs and curves printed out on white paper. Your favorite pencil flies across the exam faster than your mile time, and soon, you're finished.

Wiping your sweaty and cramped hands on your jeans, you look up at the clock in the front of the classroom. You've finished at least twenty minutes early. You sigh softly. I don't feel like checking answers.

Almost instinctively, your eyes glance at your teacher's desk—it was starting to become a habit to look at him. But also, you wanted to see if he was grading the math tests from earlier periods. Except, he most clearly wasn't.

Why? Because he was looking at you. And your eyes meet. Electricity courses through your veins and you swear your heart stops beating for a few seconds. You can't hold the gaze as you quickly turn your head, releasing a breath you didn't know you had held.

Goddamn. Now, this is awkward.

Trying to shake off the awkwardness, you take a small breath and grip your pencil in your hands again. Maybe it's time to check answers.

Except—except, you can see out of the corner of your eye, your teacher still watching you. It wasn't a creepy stare though, no. It was like a handsome prince lovingly admiring his beautiful princess. Well, you were no beautiful princess, and though Jimin might be handsome, he was no prince. But still. His gaze made you feel... secure and even admired. Your heart flutters in your chest.

Why is he watching me?

You're too scared of the answer to even possibly ponder it.

So, sighing quietly, you use all your willpower to pretend like your teacher is not watching you as you cross your legs and tuck a strand of loose hair behind your ear. You give your lucky pencil a nice squeeze. It's time to check answers.

"Did you know you frown when you concentrate?" Jimin asks as he does the dishes, diligently washing a bowl that had been previously filled with a healthy salad.

You sit on the kitchen counter, making some tea as you cock your head. From all that watching, he would know all of my stupid behaviors when it comes to test-taking. But you feign ignorance. "How would you know?"

"Well, not to sound weird but sometimes I watch my students take their tests," Jimin says as he dries his wet hands on a nearby towel, then sauntering over to sit next to you on the kitchen counter.

Your heart falls. So I'm not special. He watches everyone.

"No, not all of my students... I only ever watch you," your teacher admits as he scratches the back of his neck in what seems like slight embarrassment.

Your heart leaps in your chest. You don't know how to pirouette, twirl, turn, but your heart was surely doing it at the moment. Was this it? Was he confessing? Were you not in a one-sided crush?

"It's because I care for you," he starts awkwardly. "I mean, don't you tend to watch things you care for? Just to see if they're alright? I dunno..."

Ohohoho, you have no idea.

You nod enthusiastically. "Mhm, of course." Your lips stretch out into a large smile—you're unable to control it. You feel warmer than the cup of tea in your hands. "So you truly care for me?" you tease slightly, casually nudging Jimin.

He nudges you back, laughing. "Of course, Y/N, you're like a best friend to me."

Your eye twitches slightly, your smiles wavers and vanishes and you don't feel as warm anymore.

Well shit, you were friendzoned.

Smiling in accomplishment, you stretch back from your seat, mentally celebrating the finishing of your homework. Your blasted teachers had given you some extra weekend work, but jokes on them, you finished it all in—you glance at your watch—seven hours.

Wait a minute. Seven hours?! You do a double-take, wiping your eyes with the back of your hand and polishing the glass of your watch. The delicate, silver hands still pointed all signs that it was indeed, 10 pm.

Well fuck. I've literally been at school seven more hours than I should've. I've been at school for practically 15 hours! That's more than half of the hours in a day—I spent approximately 63% of the whole day at school!!! And even worse, I mISSED DINNER!

You take deep breaths to calm yourself, immediately looking up to see—no surprise—Jimin working hard at his desk. His eyebrows were scrunched up cutely, and he was biting his pink lips in concentration. The sight of him instantaneously calms you down.

But then you notice Jimin looks frustrated, stressed even. You always admire him for taking care of his own problems, yet sometimes you wish he'd learn to burden others with his dilemmas.

Slowly and quietly, you creep up behind your teacher, looking over his shoulder. "Need any help, Mr. Park?" you whisper in his ear, a small, teasing smile plastered on your lips.

Jimin jumps slightly, turning around to look at you. His serious look is replaced with a reciprocated bright smile. He flutters his eyelashes and runs his fingers through his silky hair, refusing to break eye contact with you. "Oh c'mon no one's around," he says, chuckling. "Jimin will do."

"Yeah, no shit no one's around," you pout slightly, casually placing your chin on Jimin's shoulder. Ever since he majorly friendzoned you, you have to admit it was easier to have physical contact—though your heart beats wildly in your chest every time the two of you touch.

"Hmm..." your teacher hums, twirling his red correcting pen. "It'll take just a bit more... Is our little Y/N bored?" he asks as he reaches out to mockingly pat your head.

You groan dramatically.

"What time is it?" Jimin asks absentmindedly, letting your head rest on his shoulder.

"10," you mutter lazily, wanting to doze off with your face up against Jimin's warm neck.

"WHAT?!" your teacher shouts, shifting suddenly to grasp your arms and bring your whole body in front of him. He even tugs you forward, closer to him. Your heart is already having its own mini explosions, not being able to comprehend such closeness from your ultimate crush.

"Why didn't you tell me it was this late, Y/N?" Jimin cries. "Shit, I'm so sorry, I made you wait so long! God, I lost track of time!"

You just shrug, although a bit surprised at his outburst. At this moment, you're just worried Jimin'll hear the aggressive thumping of your poor heart—it can't take this anymore. You're definitely not built for unrequited love. "It's all good," you say, trying to smile calmly. "It's no big deal, really."

Apparently, your stomach thinks otherwise as it lets loose a large growl, much to your horrification. "Oops," you whisper.

At that, Jimin runs his fingers through his hair, sighing. "Fuck, we've been here for seven hours, Y/N, it is a big deal!" He grabs both of your hands, taking you by surprise. "We skipped dinner! I swear to god, Jin will kill me if he found out!"

You giggle. It was slightly amusing to watch Jimin fret so much. "What if we don't tell him?" you whisper mischievously, leaning forward. You're trying so, so hard not to scream in the utter joy that your crush is literally holding your hands right now.

Nope, I'm not going to acknowledge that at all, you tell yourself dutifully.

Now you're waiting for Jimin to answer, to say something funny, or witty as usual. Yet, he doesn't. Instead, he's actually quite silent—it doesn't seem normal. You take a peek at his face to make sure he doesn't look sick or anything, or maybe it was just a dumb excuse you made up to check his ethereal features out.

That turned out to be a big mistake.

You peer into Jimin's eyes, only to catch them looking at your lips. His eyes flutter back up to yours, and now the two of you are staring at each other. Your eyes speak a language only the two of you can understand.

His eyes tell you to inch closer to him, to part your lips.

Your eyes tell him to tug you into his lap, an all too familiar action. He doesn't let go of your hands.

You can feel his breath, hear his breath.

Hell, you can hear his heart. And you're not mistaken—you swear on your own life that you hear the quickened pounding.

And still, you're staring right into his soft, but slightly hooded eyes—never breaking contact. You're so close. So, so close to him, the closest you've ever been.

He slowly, tantalizingly slowly leans in, almost to give you a chance to back out. Oh, hell no. You're staying.

His beautiful, breathtaking face is so close that your eyes are almost crossing to meet his. Then, he closes his eyes just as he closes the minuscule gap between the two of you.

Your lips meet.

You don't know how something can go by so quickly and slowly at the same time. Each movement of your connected mouths is so languid, so relaxed, yet quick, but victorious fireworks are exploding behind you.

Straddling Jimin, you feel his body heat, your bare legs chafing against the smooth material of his slacks. It's so close to heaven that it is.

He works his magic, lips pulling and parting at the precise moments, his tongue finding its way into your waiting mouth. You can barely function from the heat of the moment, but you realize that you are glad he doesn't taste like beer this time.

Jimin sweetly squeezes your hands that are encompassed in his, leaning back slightly for both of you to breathe. Immediately, your eyes are open, and they lock onto his. But as if in a time restraint, both of you hurriedly shut your eyes again and lean in to meet each other's lips once more.

It's euphoric, really.

And for the first time in your life, you get to feel what physical affection is like. This one's not a lustful, drunken kiss, it's so much more than that. You put your heart in this, and you hope Jimin did the same. It surely felt like it.

With one last, sweet and soft, lingering kiss, your teacher, crush and friend leisurely pulls away. You almost lean forward to follow his lips—you guess you miss them on yours that much.

Your eyes flutter open, meeting Jimin's hooded ones.

Goddamn. You don't know how to feel, what to say, what to do, what to think. Your hands are still tightly enclosed in his.

"Oh..." you breathe out, hoping Jimin would say something for you, anything. But he doesn't. He remains silent. It's so not like him.

Regret starts to pour into your body, coursing through your veins. It feels like poison. You can feel yourself wilt, as you realize—it was still one-sided, Jimin had merely been caught up in the heat of the moment, again.

"Fuck," you whisper, mostly to yourself. "Fuck," you say louder, tears starting to well up in your eyes. Jimin loosens his grip on your hands, and you slide them away, the warmth all gone. You search for your teacher's face for anything, any sign that he was okay with what both of you had just done. But again, nothing.

"Oh my god. What have we done?" you mutter, looking down and away. You were yet to slide away from Jimin's lap, but you couldn't bear to move away from that sort of comforting warmth.

"Shit, Y/N," Jimin breathes. It's the first phrase he says after the... well, kiss. "I'm so sorry," he mutters, his hand fluttering around your face to cup your cheek, but you flinch away. Goddammit, Y/N, why?

"Fuck, I'm so sorry, Y/N," Jimin whispers, he tugs his hand back to his chest. "It was a mistake! I didn't mean it. Oh god, don't tell Jin." He notices you're still on his lap and jumps up, making you fall down onto the cold, classroom floor—you're too shocked to react much. "God, I'm so sorry!" He tries to help you up, but you shake your head and stand up on your own.

"Y/N. I'm so sorry. It was a mistake," Jimin repeats. "It really was."

Your head is spinning, and you don't know what to say, or do, for that matter. "Then, a mistake it was," you finally manage to say, your voice a bit shaky. "Can we go now?"

I made out with him again. And he wasn't even drunk this time.

You repeatedly have that thought, over and over and over again. You can't seem to get the feeling, the sounds, the sight out of your head. You'd given your all into that little kiss, but Jimin deemed it was merely 'a mistake.'

That didn't hurt at all, nope, not at all.

You're quite good at lying to yourself. Because you know that hurt you a lot. God, I'm so humiliated. You just want to roll up in a small ball and throw yourself into a deep, dark corner. But you can't. Unfortunately, that shit is only figurative.

Sighing, you take a slight peek at Jimin in the driver's seat. His face is completely emotionless, which makes you worry.

We just ruined a perfectly good friendship, goddammit.

You're dropped off at your house; no words are exchanged between you and Jimin, you don't even turn back to give him a parting wave (like you usually do). Unlocking your front door, you quickly walk inside, slumping down to the floor immediately. With your back leaning heavily against the door, you bury your face in your hands.

Things had been going so well. Life had been going so well.

Now it seemed like you lost your best friend—who knows what more you might lose?

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stephonyourfeet · 4 years

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My random haikyuu! Headcanons pt 1.

I will not be taking criticism on these

This was actually so much fun to make haha hopefully y’all enjoy them too

Karasuno

Noya would wear a skirt for a dare, then realize he kind of likes it and wear them more often

Asahi had the basic green turtle pillow pet growing up and he still sleeps with it

I would be on Tsukki’s “can punch” list. I don’t know why I just feel like I would be

Kiyoko has the prettiest writing, like it could be in a satisfying compilation

Yamaguchi can rap all of WAP and lowkey kind of learned the dance

Suga would turn he read receipts on just for one text when he’s fed up with bad memes

Tanaka wants a pedicure he’s just nervous to go get one

Coach ukai and takeda have a running bet on how many times hinata gets hit in the face with a volleyball

Daichi leaves angry comments on toxic health instagram posts

Ennoshita has a popular tiktok account that no one on the team know about, and his most viral post is Tanaka rolling noya down a ramp in the volleyball cart before cutting to the “shot on iPhone” screen

Hinata ended up on witchtok and can’t get out

Yamaguchi got scared the first time he heard the windows noise

Aww I need one for kageyama ;-;

He went to a farm to milk cows once and now every time he drinks a milk carton he says a little thanks to the cows and the farmers

Kageyama also shamelessly has the most intense manicure routine, like cuticle pusher, oil glass file and everything

Yachi listened to screamo music while studying volleyball plays and now every time the team goes into for that play, there’s just aggressive screaming in the background of her mind

2 to the 1 to the 1 to the 3, do you wanna die? Yeah definitely- Noya, Tanaka, kageyama, and hinata during math class

Hinata tried to study using osmosis after yachi explained what osmosis was(she had to reteach it)

Tsukki got a pink drink a Starbucks and have yamaguchi a sip and now they go there after practice at least once a week

Sugawara eats oatmeal raisin cookies. He just does

Everyone else hates him for it(Asahi secretly like them but he’s too nervous to get flamed so he stays silent)

Kiyoko was offered a modeling job and turned it down, if the guys found out noya and Tanaka start crying

Hinata has terrible fashion sense, was the highlighter kid in middle school (I’m sorry I love him but it’s true. We all make mistakes)

Sometimes tsukki doesn’t play music in his headphones, he just pretends to while he eavesdrops on everyone else’s conversations

Hinata legit believes in “if I can’t see them they can’t see me” it does not save him from kageyamas wrath

Coach ukai would def run a red light on the way to a tournament on accident and when Takeda looks at him like “wtf” he does the monkey meme thing and just looks at him before looking away

Why do I know I missed someone, like I know it just don’t know who¿ what team should I do next?

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ohpretty-baby · 4 years

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bts as my sophomore class teachers

a thread because i miss my teachers lowkey

anyways enjoy <3

first hour: ap seminar with kim namjoon

super philosophical

is a fanboy for rosseau, calls him the original gangster

intimidatingly intelligent; like reads 3 books in one day and writes two papers on them intelligent

constantly connecting foundational thinkers/texts to real life situations (ex: echo and narcissus and selfies in social media)

makes you feel like a bad person by questioning your moral motives

there’s never a dull day in his class

seriously

one time we spent the hour evaluating billie eilish’s bad boy and that one “sweet but psycho” song and talked about double consciousness

the next day we did a full 180 and talked about mass burials

then we talked about the refugee crisis the day after that

extremely thought provoking conversations

gives you independence, which is a double edged sword because everyone in ap sem procrastinates

wants students to exceed not only in his class but also outside of school

my irl ap sem teacher helped me figure out that i wanted to go into a career of law !

also an extensive librarian (hence the ability to read 3 books in one day)

if you have the slight interest in something, he has a book for it

i literally have 8 books checked out from my school library because of him

gives you complete and honest ratings of r rated movies and posts them on your schoology board

not afraid to be scandalous

“now everyone say it with me: premarital sex!”

that was something my irl teacher said, that day we shouted out premarital sex about 15 times with the door wide open

amazing music taste

literally

he listens to anything and everything, from french rap to spanish pop and then english folk songs

will dj for your graduation party for free

second hour: honors english with min yoongi

insanely calm, probably just very sleepy

easy going, chill

you really don’t feel pressured in his class

people goof off in class and are generally very annoying, but he doesn’t care

occasionally lectures students if he really needs to

communicates what we have to do and then lets us do the work

lets us fail if we’re not responsible

but will understand if you can’t turn in a project if life gets in the way

i still have a project i need to turn in oops-

i haven’t received any negative repercussions tho

lets kids eat in his class and lets them go to the vending machine if they have no food

i go to my locker every morning to get food to eat

eats with us

lets you use your phone and watch netflix

will even ask you what show you’re watching and if it’s good

actually a really good teacher if you pay attention in his class

kids just think they can slack off, they end up failing tho so it’s really none of his issues

for some reason he’s a substitute teacher for a lot of classes

when he subs, the classes are extremely fun

one time i spent my whole sixth hour talking to him about my costar and astrology

goofs off with the kids

that same day he subbed, my friends were making panoramas of each other and he rated all of them

isn’t strict

cares about his students and is very easy to talk to

because of this a lot of students open up to him

isn’t a snitch

would willingly make fun of classic literature with you

third hour: honors chemistry with kim taehyung

Super Sassy

always gets the last word when students mess around with him

“what’s your favorite double replacement reaction?”

“my favorite ones are the ones you guys get right; so none”

as you can guess, students love having conversation with him

probably has a dope ass instagram but damnit he won’t let accept anyone’s follow requests

probably because that’s illegal

constant Bad BItch energy

will openly tell students they are annoying without shame

will also openly tell you that you are dumb

once i thought that we had four principals (one for each grade, don’t question it) and my irl teacher was speechless,, like she couldn’t actually say anything at my stupidity

i would willingly sell my soul for my chemistry teacher

always has labs to do, even if they’re not very helpful at times

lets students retake tests by creating a new test

but they’re actually harder than the actual test

students skip their own classes to visit him

i always skip my 6th hour to go into the chemistry

constantly has to chase away students

actually very sweet and cares about students, but is never really a push over

again, a constant Bad Bitch

fourth hour: honors spanish with kim seokjin

an even Bigger Bad Bitch

super fun and sassy

fiestas!!!!!!!

we have fiestas but literally the only Spanish thing we have is chips and salsa and tacos

i’m not kidding

people just bring in cake pops and brownies

will sometimes teach a whole lesson in Spanish just to fuck with us

will also try to hold a conversation with us in Spanish just to fuck with us even more

loves seeing our shocked and confused faces when can’t answer his questions

actually teaches us

gives a lot of busy work but i honestly think that’s the better ways of learning and practicing Spanish, so there’s no complaints

engaging lessons, encourages us to make mistakes so we can be comfortable with the language

veryyyy helpful with pronunciation, makes sure that we know how to pronounce certain words

super trustworthy

once after school i spilled tea with my irl spanish teacher about a messy breakup i had gone thru, it was real fun

we have a theory that one of the senior teachers has a crush on her because he always visits her when he comes to our class

really good teacher but heavily overestimates our ability

especially when it comes to tests

but will admit his wrongs when we don’t do well in class

literally the best friend you wish you had

fifth hour: ap world with jeon jungkook

literally really pretty

really funny and sweet but his class is hard

not because of the extensive work and the fast pace, but because he doesn’t prepare students enough for saqs, dbqs, leqs, etc.

we still love our ap world teacher bc she genuinely cares about us

teaches an ap class but has never taken an ap class in high school

still teaches even tho he’s sick and his own students have asked him to stay at home so he can feel better

really fun discussion activities, like fishbowls

always drinking tea with a cool ass mug that has all the presidents of the united states on it

wears really cute clothes and coordinates colors

but sometimes will just pull up in pajamas

either way he’s Stylin

makes sure that students know that he doesn’t believe in racism and communism

always tells his students to take care when they say goodbye

draws LOTS of smiley faces

sometimes more confused about the content then the students are

but genuinely kind and hard working, even if it takes him 3 months to grade papers

sixth hour: theology with jung hoseok

confusing lectures

will talk about persecution in rome and then switch the topic onto blts (yes, the sandwich) and then talk about male circumcision

really goofy

deaf

talks very loudly because he takes his hearing aid out during lessons

honestly a really confusing teacher

a lot of people don’t like his teaching style, and neither do i, but it’s not a hard class so there’s really nothing to complain about

you really just need to read the slides in his class to pass

gives out homework but never grades it

i never turn in homework,,,

i get a’s on his test and he just gives good grades for every homework assignment

honestly just really sweet and funny even when he tries not to

talks with his hands way too much

will take selfies with you if you let him

constantly asking for validation from his students

“is my teaching style ok? i know it can be confusing but i really try with making lectures funny so you guys won’t be bored”

can sometimes be annoying but everyone loves him because he just doesn’t make sense

literally the best class to do other homework in

sees students as his friends

once we had a public discussion online about our concerns of the coronavirus instead of actually learning about theology

i said that i was worried that i’d die of the coronavirus before i got a boyfriend

he replied to my comment saying “1. you are killing me ! :) 2. i’m sure that you have a lot of secret admirers, so the boyfriend thing is covered, they just need to figure things out. remember maturity happens at different stages for everyone.”

even though i don’t like his class at times, i know i’m gonna miss how crazy he is

seventh hour: honors geometry with park jimin

Sweetest, Softest, Most Pure of all

gives out candy during tests

but not just any candy

the really good strawberry candies that grandmas always have and never run out of

sometimes the lessons go by too fast but yet too slow at the same time

a Literal Grandpa

doesn’t let kids say “shut up” or “dumb” in his class

claims that he doesn’t even say “shut up” to his own kids

always reminds kids that this is a No Judgement Zone

rewards students who answer challenging questions with little stand-up signs that say “Expert at Work” or “Rockstar” that they can put on their desk

will buy or make little stockings that spell out the initials of the high school

brags about his kohl’s cash

once bought a $50 scooter for only $5 dollars because of his kohl’s cash

stays after school for two hours to reteach lessons to students

takes little strolls around the school building with his friends during lunch

Mental Math Mondays

mondays are when we play mental math card games with the whole class

lets kids make their own card games

will ask if you’re okay if you look sad

will also ask if you’re okay if you look sleepy

asks kids to be patient with him when they have a confusing lesson to teach

wIll thoroughly explain everything to the best of his ability

definitely has never done anything wrong

this made me genuinely miss my teachers even though i hate school with my whole entire heart, soul, and mind! anyways love u guys

#thread #appreciation #bts #bts taehyung #bts namjoon #bts seokjin #bts yoongi #bts hoseok #bts jungkook #bts jimin #bangtan #bts thread #bts as teachers #bts appreciation

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cookinguptales · 4 years

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I've a small query (if it doesn't float your boat, no worries!) I was interested in how you got into learning languages, what led you to it? I've become curious since learning a new language as an adult has only increased my awe of multilingual folk (additionally, I vaguely remember a post about a request in exchange for a donation to charity, and wondered if there were any you'd like a donation to)

First of all, good luck with the language learning! It’s not easy as an adult, but I do think it’s worth it, both in terms of cultural fluency and brain elasticity.

My answer to the language thing is actually extremely complicated, so I’ll be putting it under the cut. I’ll put the charity stuff above the cut so more people can see it.

— I’d just like to warn you, though, before I start, that I have been locked in this house for over a month with no respite and I HAVE A LOT OF WORDS AND FEELINGS IN ME SO THIS POST HAS SO MANY OF BOTH OF THOSE THINGS!!

anyway

There are so many charities that I want to donate to now that it honestly makes my head spin. Every time I look at a site like GoFundMe it kind of makes me want to cry. So a lot of donations I’ve made have been to like local businesses, restaurants, etc. who will close down without help. (Also a lot of local native groups, who are disproportionately suffering right now.) I’ve also been donating to various food banks — Philabundance, a Philly-centric charity that deals with food insecurity in general, is a good one. That was a regular of mine even before the outbreak. I’ve also donated to a lot of the local services in the small town where I’m in now, though you’ll need to PM me if you want the name of that. (It’s… very small.)

Off Their Plate is another great charity that’s been working with small restaurants (who can’t open for business) to get food to first responders. They’re partnered with World Central Kitchen, which is another fantastic charity that helps out during disasters. Plus well-known ones like Feeding America, No Kid Hungry (important while school is out and kids aren’t getting breakfast/lunch there), Direct Relief, etc.

(I uhhh may have overstrained my charity budget the past couple months. It’s odd how that adds to stress and relieves it at the same time.)

I tend to avoid religious charities, especially Salvation Army, because they’re occasionally discriminatory in how they distribute resources and we no longer have laws & oversight to make sure they don’t do shady shit. So I just avoid them in general now. I also avoid the American Red Cross because they’ve been known to misuse funds. Research is key!

I also worry about some of my regular charities, like Immigration Equality & Rainbow Railroad (helps LGBTQ people in dangerous countries immigrate to less dangerous ones), the Native American Rights Fund, various local abortion funds, RAICES (provides legal services to immigrants & refugees), the ACLU, Dysautonomia International, the Rainforest Action Network, etc… A lot of them are getting fewer donations than they’re used to because we’re in the middle of such life-shattering events.

If you are really interested in making a donation (please, please, please do) those are all good options. I also fully recommend looking up needy organizations, services, people, etc. in your own area. I try to donate to a healthy mixture of national/international organizations, local needs, and temporary issues du jour. (Disaster relief, bail funds for protesters, fighting new discriminatory laws, etc.) I would genuinely appreciate any donations, especially if you find a cause near and dear to your heart that I would never even hear about. Anything along these same lines, y’know? If you have anything you’d like me to do in return, just hmu.

I constantly stress about who to donate to — there are so many good organizations and so few dollars to give them — but at a certain point, every dollar to a cause you believe in counts. Every dollar you donate helps to make the world a little bit better for at least one person. That’s what I have to tell myself to calm myself down, haha. So even the smallest donation you make to any of these groups would mean a lot to me.

Anyway, onto the language stuff:

For me personally, I grew up bilingual. Deafness runs in my family, so I learned sign language from a very young age. Note: I say “sign language” rather than ASL. I learned sign language kind of organically, which ended up making a mess later in life. My parents mostly taught me, but so did my daycare (at a deaf school) and so did my babysitters and so did other family members, etc. The point is, not all of them used the same sign language. There was a wide mixture of ASL, SEE, and home signs and my current signing style is… problematic. lmao. My family all understands it (hey, they taught it to me) and I can have conversations with American sign language users, but I know they can’t love my signing lmao. I’ve considered sitting down and taking a legit ASL class for years, but there are so many classes I want to take… I don’t know.

After that, it largely became a case of taking languages whenever they were made available to me. I’ve always liked them. We moved around a lot when I was a preteen so I went to a lot of different schools. (4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade were all different schools.) It was rough at home and hard to make friends so I guess I threw myself into academics a lot. My sixth grade school was an odd one; it was a 6-8 grade school and you were supposed to take a crash course in three different languages in sixth grade so you could choose one and take it in 7th and 8th grade. I ended up taking Spanish, French, and German that year. I liked French best! But then we moved so it was kind of moot. (And I hated German, sorry Germans. My mouth doesn’t like the noises. It didn’t help that my teacher was weirdly sympathetic to Nazi-era Germany…? But I guess that’s another post.)

When we moved to Florida, you had to have special permission to take language classes in 7th grade. (FL doesn’t have great academics.) But since I’d already had some Spanish in NC, they let me take it! And then I moved schools again. This new school, my 8th grade school, I’d be in until I graduated 12th grade years later — but the employee turnover at that school was almost comedically bad? I took Spanish for like a year and a half there and had three different teachers. So at this point I’d had 5 different Spanish teachers, all from different countries (where they spoke slightly different Spanish!), all reteaching the same ideas over and over again because they didn’t know where the last teacher had left off. In the end, my last Spanish teacher sent me to the school library with some textbooks because he felt like I was very good at languages and he couldn’t adequately teach me in the environment he’d been thrown into. (My high school was very terrible. So he was right.)

SO I SWITCHED TO FRENCH. I took French for 3-4 years in high school (can’t remember when I started) but the same shit started happening. By the last year, my French teacher had the French I, II, III, and IV students IN THE SAME CLASS and she just put the advanced students in small groups and had us do independent study. Sigh… Around this same time, I started three other languages. At this point, I was getting kind of accustomed to self-study so I applied for a Latin class in the Florida Virtual School and took a year of that. I also spent a summer studying at the University of Chicago when I was 16-17 and learned Middle Egyptian then. (Yes, I was an ancient cultures nerd even back then.)

The Japanese has always been an odd case. Like I said, my 8-12 education was fairly terrible. They had this thing where they used a computer program to teach kids math and the teacher kind of taught along? When I transferred to the school in the middle of 8th grade, the teacher didn’t know what to do with me so he just plopped me in front of a computer and told me to do as much as I could. They started me in… Pre-Algebra, I think? Which I’d already taken in sixth grade. So I ended up getting through Pre-Algebra, Geometry, Algebra, and Algebra II, which… wasn’t in the teacher’s plans. I’d kind of finished several years of math in like a quarter. And then they didn’t have any more classes. So he just told me to like. Sit quietly and amuse myself for the last few months of school?? (Terrible, terrible school.) So I went to the library and found a book about Japanese and started teaching myself that. I really, really liked Japanese! Like it’s a language that just clicks really well with the way my brain works, I think. It’s very logical, I like the syllabary, etc. And I think growing up signing helped me with pictographic languages like Middle Egyptian and Japanese. My brain easily connects visual symbols with concepts.

When I went to college, the plan was honestly to learn more Egyptian and start translating, and I kept taking French to help me read old research in various ancient study fields. I ended up transferring out of the NELC major, though, due to some ethical problems… I guess that’s another post. Several years into my RELS/FOLK degree I went to my parents like. Look. I love learning this stuff but none of it’s useful. Remember how much I loved Japanese? Can I go back to learning that? I could translate that and that’s a legit skill. So I applied to a program through my school and studied in Japan for a while and ended up really doubling down on that language. Weird how I came back to it years later, but I guess it was always the one I loved best.

I have a mind that’s very pattern-based, so I guess I’ve always loved learning languages and the patterns behind them. (This may be why languages with a lot of rule exceptions, like French, irritate me.) They’re like puzzles that I’ve always enjoyed teasing out. Unfortunately, the way my education bounced around meant that I never got a good grounding in most of those languages, so I’ve largely lost them. I can still read French fairly well and my Japanese is good… My Spanish is like. Enough to get me around in the southern US. My German is abysmal. I remember very little Latin & Middle Egyptian. (It’s been over 10 years, I guess.)

So I guess what I feel the need to say to you is that if you don’t use it, you will lose it. I did well in all my language classes. They’ve always been fairly easy for me. Like. Straight As, no problem. I don’t say this to brag. I say it so you know that even for someone like me, whose brain is fairly well-wired for languages, it’s very, very difficult to retain languages when you’re not using them. If you’re not used to taking languages or you started late in life, it’s even harder. So even on the days you don’t want to practice! You gotta practice! Ganbare! Bon chance!

#replies #god these are so many words #sorry to everyone #shaymeson

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uninterestedbisexualbitch-blog · 6 years

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for the ones that are trying hard

Hi! If you’re somehow seeing this, (which no one will because I have one whole follower that is a fake porn account) it’s about my struggles in my current life. I’m making it public to give people that are in similar predicaments someone to relate to. If you don’t give a shit, scroll along. If you do, sorry about my grammar or word choice (literally just writing to get shit off my chest). Enjoy :)

When you grow up in a shitty place like I did, you know that sometimes school is your only way out. And when your mental health is slowly degrading, it gets hard. I want to skip school all of the time, yet I know I just need to go. And no one told me how hard keeping good grades was in college. I need to read a book for history, reteach myself math, and take TONS of psychology notes by like Thursday but its only Tuesday, but I have to go to my dead end fucking job (I actually just found a new one with better pay, go me!). My coworkers that I once enjoyed working with are now gone. The holidays don’t start up for another month, so everything has been dead and slow. This job is no longer fun, fast-paced, and as of recently; if I fuck up (come in late, out of dress code, any minor workplace violation), I’m fired. I’m a good worker. I try and try at this job and I’m only making 8 dollars an hour, and have only been scheduled 4-8 hours per week.

With all of this going on, I am in the middle of trying to get on the road. I’m 18 and I don’t have a drivers license. I take public transportation to get to my college everyday. I hate myself for this. Everyone my age has a car and license. I know people look down on me. but what they don’t is how hard I’m trying. I spent an entire check on drivers ed, and I’m finally comfortable behind the wheel. I bought a car, too. It’s ugly, needs work, and is extremely dangerous to drive, and it’s accumulating late fees on the tag (last I checked it was 300). Time’s ticking, where’s your license, I cOuLD dRiVe WhEn i WaS oNlY 12. I’m receiving no financial help from my parents. The only thing they’ve bought me (since I’ve had a job) was utilities, and a few gifts here and there. They didn’t pay for my car, drivers ed, or books for school. I’m trying to do the best I can with the cards that stupid fucking life gave me.

Even if others don’t see the efforts I’m making to learn to drive and just improve my life in general, I do. I know I’m doing okay for most people my age (especially in the area I live in). But I feel like I’m also watching my friendships and relationship fall out of my hands. My best friend, my only friend, is having a baby. The dad is not present. I want to be there for her so bad, but I have to take care of myself too. I normally have weekends to myself, but they are usually spent with my boyfriend (of 2 years) because we don’t see each other during weekdays, due to conflicting school and work schedules. I love that boy. I do. But I feel like I’m watching him slip away from me, slowly, more and more every time we hang out. We fight non-stop (usually because of me). I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and manic depression. I live untreated and un-medicated, partly by choice. I don’t have the money to talk to a professional, and I refuse to take medicine (no one wants to be a drugged out, emotionless zombie, amirite?). As a result, my emotions are very unpredictable. Little things set me off when they shouldn’t and I say and do things that I don’t really mean. I’m also very much a smartass. My smartassness has become so integrated into my personality that I don’t even know when I’m fucking doing it. MY boyfriend, just like anyone else, gets tired of me being a smartass, and gets upset. Then I get upset, because I think he’s mad at me for practically nothing, and from there on, we fight fire with fire.

I want nothing more to just become a better person. But college has turned me into an emotionless fuck. 8 hours of sleep is never enough. I lost my sense of personal style. And I smoke way too much fucking weed. I use to be in three sports, so it’s safe to assume that I was fit. My body is now ugly and soft. In summary, my confidence packed it’s shit and left.

But I’m trying. Slowly working to become the woman I am capable of becoming, and if I lose everything that I love in life, then so be it. But my drive is always here. I am trying.

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cheonjaem-blog · 7 years

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boyfriend! park woojin

how the shy, nerdy loser, park woojin would confess

school! au

park woojin is such a nerd lmao

everyone knows that he’s hella smart, got straight a’s, 5.0 gpa

if you’re tryna pass a class, you best be sitting next to him

but nobody actually knows him personally

he doesn’t really talk much to other students but has a semi-friend lee daehwi

you had woojin in science class

and tbh you didn’t know shit

you started off the class with an f after you failed your first quiz

and things just never got better gg

but you started realizing that the semester was ending, and you were about to take a fat ass L

your teacher called you in after class, and told you straight up that you were about to fail his class, and you needed to get your shit together

“hmmm if you’re really struggling with this material, i suggest asking park woojin to help you”

and you just want to kys because you’re not tryna fail and retake this class

but woojin kind of scared you lol

he’s so perfect and smart and low key intimidating even if you’ve known him since middle school

you’ve never really held an actual conversation with him after all those years of being in the same class

so you walk home thinking of different ways to end your life cheat on the final actually understand the material

you drop into the nearest convenience store by your house to pick up some food to motivate you to study, and you accidentally run into woojin

he mutters a quick “sorry” before walking out, but you turn around and grab his sleeve

“wait can you pretty please tutor me in science?”

and you just give him an embarrassed laugh

surprisingly he says yes!!

he’s really shy and super confused bc he’s known you for so long but he never thought that you actually knew he existed??

and he was also super flustered at seeing you since he thought you were really cute and may or may not have crushed on you for 4 years,,

so you exchange kkt’s and meet up at the library after school everyday

sometimes you buy him drinks and sometimes he’ll buy you chips

“woah how’d you know honey butter chips are my favorite??”

obviously bc he’s been low key stalking you

anyways.. he reteaches you all the key concepts that you should know for the final

and you swear the teacher has never gone over this in class but maybe you were asleep

you guys hit it off so well??

and you find out that woojin is really talkative when he’s talking about something he’s passionate about like dancing

you didn’t know this nerd danced wth??

and you feel really bad after a while bc he’s wasting his time to help you study when he could study by himself

basically you just felt like a burden ;;

so you bake him cookies as a thank you and he gets super blushy and awkward when you give them to him the next day

his blushing face is so funny that you can’t resist dropping a couple flirty teasing remarks

“aw you’re so cute woojin”

but woojin has been really enjoying spending all this time with you

he secretly likes it when you make your stupid puns

and sometimes when he’s teaching you something, he’ll drift off into space and you’ll catch him just staring at you

he’s mesmerized by you okay

as for you, you start to become comfortable with woojin

and he seems less scary, and you realize he’s just a shy bean

you notice how he’s really focused on everything he does, and you admire his perseverance

you start getting used to his presence, and it took him weeks but eventually he even starts to talk you outside of class and study sessions

like sometimes he’ll bring you lunch, and you guys will sit together in the cafeteria talking about anime or something equally nerdy

woojin has obviously never had any relationship experience and he has no other friends to confide his feelings to,,,

he’s already suppressed these feelings for the past 4 years, but now that you guys are actually friends, he doesn’t want to ruin your friendship ;;

woojin is so scared to confess bc he’s such a loser, and you’re well-loved by everyone at school

he’s way too shy and afraid you’re going to reject him immediately bc you think he’s an embarrassment to you

so one day park jihoon, your english partner, asks you to rehearse with him after school for your guys’ english project which is to recreate a scene of romeo and juliet in class

you guys wrote the script in class (a class you don’t have with woojin obvs) so of course you agree

jihoon takes you to an empty classroom and you guys start rehearsing

“o, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. they pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair”

“saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake”

“then move not, while my prayer’s effect i take”

and then jihoon leans in to fake kiss you bc he’s a flirty asshole and it’s part of the scene but why

you laugh and jokingly hit him “why are you like this wth”

at this time woojin is looking for you bc usually you meet up by your lockers, and you’re always there first waiting for him

and of course he chooses this moment, when it looks like jihoon is going to kiss you, to walk by

and his heart actually shatters

woojin is just staring with wide eyes at you two and quickly walks off bc he feels tears coming

he never knew you and park jihoon were a thing, and now he feels stupid for ever thinking he had a chance with you

he walks out of school and hears his phone ring and of course it’s you

he doesn’t really feel like talking to you rn but he’s too kind not to pick up

woojin sucks it up and continues with your study sesh but with less smiles and jokes and most of the time you think he’s grimacing

while he’s reviewing the law of gravitation with you, your phone goes off and of course it’s a text from jihoon bc you’re really unlucky rip

woojin pauses and stares at your phone which says:

from bby boy jihoon ♡ (jihoon created that name okay) : are you my homework? bc i want to slam you on my table and do you all night long ;)

“blocked and reported”

you notice woojin glaring at your phone and when your eyes meet, you’re scared by how scary and angry he looks

he grabs you by your arm and drags you out into the hallway

woojin is overcome by a jealous rage and he ends up pushing you against the wall and slamming his hands next to your head

and you’re just like wtf what’s going on? am i in a cheesy anime or something???

adrenaline is rushing in woojin, and he literally has no control over his actions atm

“you’re not jihoon’s. you’re mine”

you’re like whoa where’d this confidence come from?? what a busan way to confess wow

and wow woojin looks so fucking hot being all alpha like this holy

his confidence is so sexy shit and you don’t even say anything and just kiss him bc damn he’s hot

whenever you mention this confession to him, he gets all embarrassed bc he had an actual confession planned out with roses and milk tea and everything but oh well

so boyfriend woojin is v v v cute,,,

he’s so innocent wow

brings you flowers on every anniversary

“happy 7th month anniversary”

“wtf woojin nobody celebrates that but thx”

really really shy

at first he doesn’t initiate pda at all,, gets flustered when you hold his hand in public

eventually gets comfortable with you and becomes clingy af

study dates!!

tries to bribe you with food and cuddles when you finish homework

“i’ll buy you boba if you finish your math homework early”

your grades start rising hella wow

started from the bottom now we here c->a

woojin is a proud boyfriend when you pass your science final with flying colors and pass the class

dances for you and wow he’s so hot when he’s dancing damn

reversal charm to the max

his snaggletooth is the cutest thing you’ve ever laid eyes on holy

he wanted to get it fixed at first since he was kind of insecure about it but you were like “uh how about a no”

you loved his tooth and he ended up loving it bc you did :)))

you have an album of woojin’s childhood pics on your phone, and he begs you to delete them but you can’t resist teasing him bc it’s so funny lmao

he tells you about his crush on you in middle school really shyly one day and you just laugh bc middle school you was a cringey part of your history and if he liked you at that awful point of your life,, he’s a keeper ;;

an angel!!

knows how to cheer you up with girl group dances hahahah

dances to twice, ioi, gfriend, every girl group to make you laugh

will destroy every last shred of his dignity to see you smile :’)

a wanna be athlete

tries to play basketball with you but prob doesn’t know the rules gg

gets jealous when you drool over male idols

“i dance better than him right???”

needs constant attention like a lost puppy

it’s okay bc he’s cute

v clumsy

tried baking cupcakes for you one day but almost burned up the kitchen hahahahah see what i did there

trips over the air sometimes

vj park in training

tries to film you dancing to the choreos he’s taught you

ends up zooming in on your face 90% of the time and having really shaky camerawork

really really caring boyfriend and will love you unconditionally ♡

#wanna one #wanna one scenarios #wanna one imagines #wanna one au #wanna one as #kpop #kpop scenarios #boyfriend au #park woojin

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the-hyperactive-mind · 7 years

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A Letter to My Parents

Dear Parents, I think you both know by now I don’t know how to talk about the things I feel. I never have. You, Ma, know this better than anyone. Maybe its because of my reactive whatever disorder that you told me I have. Maybe its something else I don’t know myself truly why I do this. But what I do know my inability to express my thoughts and feelings regarding my behavior or choice of actions etc. has caused more than a fair share of problems from general concern and great frustration, to questioning if I have any true understanding of feelings or my actions to wondering if I actually feel anything at all. Well, to put it shortly I do feel and feel a hell of a lot more than I could begin to express. And being that I for some reason lack the ability to express myself confidently, sincerely and truthfully in words, I can write. While I know that both of you will probably never read this because I probably won’t show you, I’m thinking maybe this will be a step for me in beginning to force myself to tell you. Also please bare with me as Im sure this will be all over the place but I’m just spit balling everything out. Firstly, I’d like to try and put you at ease by telling you yes I do feel things. I have emotions. Don’t worry I’m not that messed up the head. I happen to feel very deeply to the point it might be unhealthy. I always have. I’m not sure if it is because I’m a thinker or because of the way my brain is wired. When I see someone else hurt, I feel for them even long after I see them. I hate for people to feel sad, I want people to feel happy. It’s been that way as long as I can remember. Maybe this seems hard to believe but its true. This is where the problem sorta comes in. We all know I have my issues. They’ve been with me forever and unfortunately they tend to cause me lots of problems. Before you go thinking that I am gonna blame the way I am on my ADHD I’m not. You know I hate using it as an excuse and never have. Hell, I refused my getting accommodation for years because I wanted to prove I could do things on my own even when it was clearly something I needed. The fact of the matter is that regardless of what I want to believe about myself a lot of myself is dictated by this. My impulsivity, reactiveness, my lack of focus, my hyper-focus, my constant struggle to to get my shit together no matter how hard I try, it will always follow me for as long as I live. I’ve known this forever but never accepted this. There was a period of time when I was much younger when I started to really understand this and I can’t even begin to explain to you how much it bothered me. I didn’t like the struggles I had. I wanted to be “normal” so badly I wished I could do anything to fix myself. Thats when the self loathing and beating myself but really began. I didn’t feel I deserved the love I was given or any good thing that happened to me because something was wrong with me. I wasn’t normal. With every impulsive move i made that caused problems or mistake, regardless of whether it was related to it or not, I took it beyond personally. I hated seeing the damage and frustration my actions caused to those around me as I didn’t want those I loved to suffer because of something I did. Yet, I had no idea how to control it or stop myself. I didn’t know how to cope with these feeling and thus sometimes when I would throw a fit it’d be in frustration with myself. Once I got a little older and understood that I could internalize what I felt, a whole new world opened. Maybe I couldn’t protect those I love from my actions but I could at the very least try and prevent them from worrying further about me from dealing with the way I truly felt. If I never cried no one would worry. I hate making people worry which is ironic because all I do is make people worry. I didn’t feel I deserved anything considering all the mistakes I made. Thats where the whole “shutting down” comes from. I stuck to it for years and got really go about it. But eventually it stopped working. As things got harder, you started to see it. At that point I had become so good as it that I didn’t know how not to do it anymore. I remember being on the couch at Dr.Evers and you asking me to please talk to you. To tell you what I was thinking. Why I did whatever the hell I did. You were practically pleading with me to say something. I was crying because I couldn’t hold it back anymore but I couldn’t speak. I could feel the words on the tip on my tounge. Part of me wanted them to come out but I just could not bring myself. I remember sitting there crying and hearing everything I wanted to say running through my head but couldn’t make my mouth move. We’d be in that position many more times after that just as before. I wanted to change so I did. I got better about talking. Not great but better. I started to open myself up and it was good. It was and still is only about the surface stuff but considering where I was it was a hell of a big improvement. Yet, I was still good at hiding the deeper stuff. Fast forward to Oak Knoll. I hate admitting it because it makes me weak but I have never felt so fucking useless. I was unhappy beyond belief but I remember Abuelita said that I shouldn’t make any trouble for you because you found someone who treasured you, a good man and that I better not try to do anything to ruin it. I mean I wanted to you to be happy. Despite it not sometimes being evident I knew you had been alone and that you did deserve someone who adored you the way you adored Pipsqueak and I. The last thing I wanted was to make you worry but of course in classic fashion I did. Each time you had to go a fight a battle for me. I felt I didn’t deserve any help. I wasn’t worth helping. I wasn’t cut out for any of this. No matter what was a victory, it was overshadowed by the thought that I did it by luck. One step forward, three steps back. I screwed up so much that things I did right would be consumed by past mistakes. Maybe it was better to give up if I couldn’t get anything right anyway. I wouldn’t amount to anything. I wasn’t smart enough, I wasn’t athletic enough, I wasn’t able to be organized enough, I wasn’t outspoken enough, I wasn’t tall enough, I wasn’t clever enough, I wasn’t pretty enough, I wasn’t competitive enough, I wasn’t good enough and never would be. I was tired of feeling inadequate. I didn’t want to be a failure. It was frustrating because I had come this far and for what? To be told I didn’t quite make the mark. Thats when, what I later learned were panic attacks really started. I guess had them in middle school a few times but they were not this bad. It started during tests. I still remember the first time I really got a true one. It was during a math test. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing and felt an unreal amount of pressure because if I didn’t do well it would effect me forever. My heart started to race. I thought I was going to die it was beating so fast. I didn’t know what was happening to me. Everything around me started to melt. It felt like it was the end of the world. Every little sound became so loud it hurt. It got harder to breathe, I felt as if I was choking. I had no idea what was happening. It was so scary. I just got out of there as fast as possible. They started to happen more during school. I got them when I was alone and started to worry about my life and my future. Anytime I got too stressed out about anything or worry I would begin to feel that heaviness in my chest. So instead of asking you for help or want to make you or anyone worry I didn’t say anything. I started to not care about as much as I could in order to not feel stress. Obviously this is a terrible coping method as I neglected anything I felt would cause me too much stress. I’d rather have people think I was lazy then tell anyone what was experiencing. While this method did work it wasn’t perfect. I did that for two years. I cried more during those two years than I had in my entire life I’m pretty sure. I would go to the bathroom at school and cry. I would go to bed crying clinging onto Mocha. I somehow made it though. I was also really good at hiding it. I bet you didn’t know I felt this way during that time or at least to the extent I did. I was good at covering it up. I smiled at all the right times. I laughed. To tell you the truth other then the occasional squabble, I was happy at home. I enjoyed being with the family. I loved being home. Home was safe. There were times thing were good, but there were times things were bad. When I found out I wouldn’t have to go back to that place the panic attacks became almost nonexistent. I found hope that things would change and be good. Fast forward to going to Pomfret. I needed the change of view. Being away from the place I associated bad things with was good. I know you may have different thoughts about it but personally I think this was good. I have never been happier. I know you all could have been happier considering my fall mid term grades and frankly I needed that reality check but God I was happy. I hadn’t had friends in years. I was on my own. I was getting up and doing shit for myself. While there was room for improvement I was doing it. The biggest problem was that coping method I mentioned earlier. Teaching yourself not to care is not a good thing. The environment I was/am in was good. There was no need for that. So basically I had to try and reteach myself not to do that as it was doing more harm then good now. I shouldn’t have taught myself how to do that but I had to deal with that. I still am. I’ve spent this year fighting it. Its gonna be hard. But with this fight I found hope. I was actually excited for applying to college next year. I saw possiblities. I could maybe actually do this. The beginning of spring term i was amped. I had found that spirit that I had lost 3 years ago. The fire was lit and I was amped. I took my meds, I got my work done, I went to class, I did practice, I was doing well. My grades were good. I had a new advisor. You guys were basically out of the loop. All you knew were the things I told you which was fine. No more calls in the middle of the day flipping out at me. You guys were at a distance. It felt good. I felt like I was becoming truly independent. But like I’ve learned when I go a while without messing up, its only a matter of time before I do. And of course it happened. The problem was, I think, that i wasn’t used to doing all of that so on task. It took a lot of effort. It was hard and I think I burned myself out. I got sloppy and with that mistakes happen. Now you all know about the incident with my homework. I’ve screwed up a lot in my life but never badly at school, not this badly. I have also never been so terrified. Things were going to well. Things were looking up and now all that I was working for could come crashing down. The night I went back to my room after finding out. I cried myself to sleep terrified about what would happen.It didn’t feel real. I walked out of that meeting with my advisor and teacher about the situation in tears. I went back to my room and it all came to me at once. I screwed everything I was working toward up. Hell no good college was gonna take someone who had that on their record. And what were you guys gonna say. Everything was going so well. I might have just fucked up my future. I didn’t want to tell you. You and G both are dealing with your own shit. Serious shit. The last thing you needed to deal with was my dumbass that screwed up something so simple. I would tell you once I solved the problem because I didn’t want to worry. I completely skipped lacrosse practice that day and just sat on my floor and cried. That familiar heavy feeling in my chest came back soon after and wouldn’t stop. I felt like I was dying. I thought it would never end. I couldn’t breath. I wanted it to stop. I knew of only one way to make it stop other than wait for it to pass. Pain. One time when it was happening I was tying to crawl to my bed to the bathroom at night. When I went to lean on the bathtub to stand up my hand went straight on a razor that was on the edge of the tub. it was dark so I didn’t see it there but it hurt like hell. I almost scream it hurt so bad. But with that it the panic attack stopped. I needed it to stop this time. I couldn’t and didn’t want to wait for it to end. Theres still two small scars on my wrist from bringing myself back. I have never done that before. I’m not proud of it. I usually would have just let it pass but I was so overwhelmed at that point I couldn’t deal with it. But I felt better once I could breath normally. I just lay in my bed and kept crying and ended up falling asleep for a few hours. Since then the fire I had was gone. I haven’t really been able to get anything together since then. I keep dwelling on past things. Some days are better than others but I can’t find that fire I had before. Everything started to slip, like and ice cream that is melting and I’m desperately trying to hold it together. I know we are at the end of this school year and theres nothing that I can do. I might have just fucked up this year but I learned that in theory I can do it. I just gotta figure out how again. But the answer to your one of your questions earlier ma, am I on drugs? No I am not. The only drug I’m on I’ve been on for years and you’ve called and texted yelling at me to take when I forget. The answer to you other question: “whats wrong with me?”Well to put it frankly, I have no idea. Which is why I wrote this. I don’t really know if this will help. It seems like when I open up about shit like this I get yelled at or you worry about me I fear I might end up in a psych ward. Typically the later but I digress. I really hope you don’t put me on suicide watch or something after you read this, whenever you do. Because that not whats going on here. The self loathing and beating myself up has been going on forever. Its so normal now to me its not that big a deal. I just hope maybe this will give you a little insight to what was going through my head all these years. Theres probably a lot more I could say regarding my feelings but I’m getting tired of typing all this. Anyway I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. Clearly, I am a work in progress. I always will be. I don’t deserve how patient and loving you are to me. I love you both so much. And of course Pipsqueak and Mocha and Stumpy and Doggie too. Thank you for reading. <3

-F.

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Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties

Dr. Tisha Shipley on episode 299 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

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Engage parents any time of the year with these strategies. Parent parties are fun, exciting ways to help parents and improve relationships. You can do this any time of the school year.

Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online PD courses for K-12 teachers. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout for 20% off any course.

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Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties

Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e299 Date: April 26, 2018

Vicki: Today we’re talking to Dr. Tisha Shipley from Ashford University about building family relationships and having parent parties.

So, Tisha, what is the secret for building effective family relationships within your classroom?

What’s the secret?

Tisha: I would say that the secret to building effective relationships is to start before you even meet them.

So I liked to send out a postcard. We know that snail mail — it’s starting to become extinct, but today I would still send out a postcard welcoming that family to my classroom.

The next thing I would do is make a phone call home. I think both of these are two things that you can do before you even meet them to show that you care, to show that you want to build that relationship, and to show that you back what they believe, and that you care about their child.

Vicki: So we want to connect before. What happens when a student starts in the middle of the year? How do we build that relationship? We don’t really have an opportunity to kind of set the stage before they walk in the classroom.

What about students who join in the middle of the year?

Tisha: Most definitely. And this happens all of the time.

So my favorite thing to do was to invite the family the day that the child got there to invite the family as soon as they could come in to have a night with me after school.

So that I could show them around the classroom, so that I could introduce them to the principal and so that they could get to know me. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first day of school or if it’s after Christmas. I still want begin building that relationship, because when you have that relationship at home with your families, they’re going to support everything that you do in your classroom. They’re going to give you ideas, because they know their child best.

Vicki: So you’re really talking younger grades, here, though, right? What grades?

Tisha: Most definitely. My expertise is Pre-K to 3rd grade, but I think that this all the way through high school. You just have to implement it differently. You have to think outside the box, how can you get your families involved where they care and know that you care about their child just like they do.

Vicki: Now so many teachers feel overworked. And they’re like, “Oh my goodness! Tisha, you’re just adding something else to my list! How am I going to have time to do this?”

What’s your advice?

How is a busy teacher going to find time to do this?

Tisha: Well building community should start from Day One, and it’s something that you’re teaching right along with your curriculum. So it shouldn’t be anything added. Because classroom community is differentiating for each child, just like we do anyway. Making sure that they know the rules, and the transitions, and the expectations, and the policies, and the procedures.

Once you teach all of these things, then your curriculum happens automatically. Everything runs smoothly like a well-oiled machine. If you have a substitute teacher, they come in and your community is already built.

So, you really don’t have to do anything extra. It’s that differentiation it’s that building that community of learners that’s engaged all the time.

Vicki: OK. So Tisha, let’s say a teacher’s new to this. It’s kind of the middle of the school year, and it’s a disaster. It’s not going like it needs to.

What do you do? Can you reboot?

If the classroom community is a disaster, do you start over again?

Tisha: Yes. I think you definitely do. I think you do this every single day. We all know that we’ve been walking down the hall, and our procedures have been broken.

I like to stop. We turn around, and we start over. You have to do this every single day. After Christmas, you have to reteach your procedures.

I think right now is a great time to start parent parties.

That is a breakoff on your classroom community.

Parent parties can be started any time. I love to start them the first day, but why not start them right now? Teach them the classroom community. Teach them how you are supporting their students. Why are we teaching these procedures? Why are we doing these transitions? What can you do at home to help us?

And so yes, I think you start tomorrow. If you’re listening to this podcast right now, start tomorrow. Start that classroom community of learners. Go in. Start from Day One and teach your procedures again. Teach your transitions again.

Give each child a job to perform as they come into the classroom. What is their responsibility in that classroom community? How can you get that child involved?

And that parent party is just another aspect to get the family involved into your classroom community.

Vicki: How would you define a parent party? Is that when you’re bringing in a parent, you know, or two parents, or however many parents — just at night? Or how does that work?

What does a parent party actually look like?

Tisha: Yes, a parent party — again, I like to start from the first day, but you can start it right now — you have a parent party once per month. The parents know the agenda — it has to be very organized. It has to be efficient. You always provide a snack of some sort, music, and fun.

When I say that, you bring the family in. You have a relationship building time. Everybody talks because it’s not just you the teacher building that relationship with the family. Each family member needs to build relationships with the other families in the classroom. That’s how you start beginning to build that community of learners and that community outside that then transitions into your classroom.

So at your classroom community party, it’s just parents. You have to have somebody that’s in another classroom playing games with students, showing a movie — that’s completely fine. But you have a strict agenda, and you stick to it.

So one month, you may have a guest speaker, like a dentist that’s in the community. The dentist comes in and visits with your families, and maybe gives a checkup to everybody. Or you send home family bags with healthy recipes, and you send home a meal with hamburger and different ingredients that go into it. So they’re always leaving with something, too.

And I like to do door prizes. So those are some things that you can do.

You also could teach a math concept. So one-to-one correspondence. I noticed when I was teaching, some of my parents didn’t know what that vocabulary was. They didn’t have that background. So I brought them in and taught them a simple thing like one-to-one correspondence. How do you teach your child this at home? What are we learning? What are we learning to write in school this week?

Those are some things you would do at your parent parties. I almost had 100% participation in these because when they come, they know it’s one hour long. They know that they’re going to eat. They know there’s going to be relationship building. There might be a guest speaker. There’s going to be a skill or concept taught that they need to be doing at home, and they really enjoy it.

What about families who cannot attend?

For the parents who can’t come to those? I always videoed them and put them on my YouTube channel, so that they could watch them later. You are going to have parents who have prior obligations or jobs that they have to go to, but you need to provide a way for them to watch that.

Vicki: So, Tisha, what kind of feedback did you get from parents? What did they say that they liked or didn’t like about these?

What feedback did you get from families about the parent parties?

Tisha: Well, obviously, time is a huge thing. I tried to make it at about 8:00 in the evening so they could go home, make sure that their family was fed, and try to have somebody there with their child. If not, they could bring them. They were just in another room playing games or something with another teacher. My teacher’s aide was in there, or I had a teacher come in and volunteer.

So that was a big thing. It was always the time. I tried to make a time that they could all be there.

The things they loved were my guest speakers. I brought in resources from the community that I thought would really help them — eye doctors, human resources, places they could get education, the dentist, veterinarians. It depended. You know, I always sent out a newsletter and I have social media, so I asked them, “What are some things you want to see at parent parties?” I think that parent feedback is important. They get to, like in your classroom community, give an idea. If you are doing that at your parent party, [they’re] going to want to come because they’re interested in the topic. So I think that’s very important. And they did like when I did that.

Vicki: OK. So, we have a fantastic idea for having parent parties and building those classroom communities.

And remember this: you can start any time you need to. We can reboot any day that we choose. If we wake up one day and realize our classroom is not what we want it to be, we do not have to take this for the rest of the school year. We can reboot. We can restart.

And if you’re struggling with those parents, then perhaps a parent party might be a great idea, because you know we’re all on the same team, and it’s all about educating the kids.

Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford [email protected]

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Dr. Shipley is a the chair of the Bachelors of Arts in Early Childhood Administration Program and a full time Associate Professor as Ashford University. Dr. Shipley has written and published many articles and has social media to reach her students and families. She has been in Education for over 15 years and still has a passion for helping teachers, families and children. Her personal website where you can find her social media, other presentations and articles is: www.busyclassroom.weebly.com

Blog: http://busyclassroom.weebly.com/tishas-ideas-and-thoughts-blog-pages

Twitter: @tishashipley

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Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties

Dr. Tisha Shipley on episode 299 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter

Engage parents any time of the year with these strategies. Parent parties are fun, exciting ways to help parents and improve relationships. You can do this any time of the school year.

Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online PD courses for K-12 teachers. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout for 20% off any course.

Listen Now

Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher

Stream by clicking here.

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Enhanced Transcript

Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties

Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e299 Date: April 26, 2018

Vicki: Today we’re talking to Dr. Tisha Shipley from Ashford University about building family relationships and having parent parties.

So, Tisha, what is the secret for building effective family relationships within your classroom?

What’s the secret?

Tisha: I would say that the secret to building effective relationships is to start before you even meet them.

So I liked to send out a postcard. We know that snail mail — it’s starting to become extinct, but today I would still send out a postcard welcoming that family to my classroom.

What about students who join in the middle of the year?

Tisha: Most definitely. And this happens all of the time.

So my favorite thing to do was to invite the family the day that the child got there to invite the family as soon as they could come in to have a night with me after school.

Vicki: So you’re really talking younger grades, here, though, right? What grades?

Vicki: Now so many teachers feel overworked. And they’re like, “Oh my goodness! Tisha, you’re just adding something else to my list! How am I going to have time to do this?”

What’s your advice?

How is a busy teacher going to find time to do this?

So, you really don’t have to do anything extra. It’s that differentiation it’s that building that community of learners that’s engaged all the time.

Vicki: OK. So Tisha, let’s say a teacher’s new to this. It’s kind of the middle of the school year, and it’s a disaster. It’s not going like it needs to.

What do you do? Can you reboot?

If the classroom community is a disaster, do you start over again?

Tisha: Yes. I think you definitely do. I think you do this every single day. We all know that we’ve been walking down the hall, and our procedures have been broken.

I like to stop. We turn around, and we start over. You have to do this every single day. After Christmas, you have to reteach your procedures.

I think right now is a great time to start parent parties.

That is a breakoff on your classroom community.

Give each child a job to perform as they come into the classroom. What is their responsibility in that classroom community? How can you get that child involved?

And that parent party is just another aspect to get the family involved into your classroom community.

Vicki: How would you define a parent party? Is that when you’re bringing in a parent, you know, or two parents, or however many parents — just at night? Or how does that work?

What does a parent party actually look like?

And I like to do door prizes. So those are some things that you can do.

What about families who cannot attend?

Vicki: So, Tisha, what kind of feedback did you get from parents? What did they say that they liked or didn’t like about these?

What feedback did you get from families about the parent parties?

So that was a big thing. It was always the time. I tried to make a time that they could all be there.

Vicki: OK. So, we have a fantastic idea for having parent parties and building those classroom communities.

And if you’re struggling with those parents, then perhaps a parent party might be a great idea, because you know we’re all on the same team, and it’s all about educating the kids.

Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford [email protected]

Bio as submitted

Blog: http://busyclassroom.weebly.com/tishas-ideas-and-thoughts-blog-pages

Twitter: @tishashipley

The post Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. Meow!

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Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties

Dr. Tisha Shipley on episode 299 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter

Engage parents any time of the year with these strategies. Parent parties are fun, exciting ways to help parents and improve relationships. You can do this any time of the school year.

Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online PD courses for K-12 teachers. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout for 20% off any course.

Listen Now

Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher

Stream by clicking here.

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Enhanced Transcript

Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties

Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e299 Date: April 26, 2018

Vicki: Today we’re talking to Dr. Tisha Shipley from Ashford University about building family relationships and having parent parties.

So, Tisha, what is the secret for building effective family relationships within your classroom?

What’s the secret?

Tisha: I would say that the secret to building effective relationships is to start before you even meet them.

So I liked to send out a postcard. We know that snail mail — it’s starting to become extinct, but today I would still send out a postcard welcoming that family to my classroom.

What about students who join in the middle of the year?

Tisha: Most definitely. And this happens all of the time.

So my favorite thing to do was to invite the family the day that the child got there to invite the family as soon as they could come in to have a night with me after school.

Vicki: So you’re really talking younger grades, here, though, right? What grades?

Vicki: Now so many teachers feel overworked. And they’re like, “Oh my goodness! Tisha, you’re just adding something else to my list! How am I going to have time to do this?”

What’s your advice?

How is a busy teacher going to find time to do this?

So, you really don’t have to do anything extra. It’s that differentiation it’s that building that community of learners that’s engaged all the time.

Vicki: OK. So Tisha, let’s say a teacher’s new to this. It’s kind of the middle of the school year, and it’s a disaster. It’s not going like it needs to.

What do you do? Can you reboot?

If the classroom community is a disaster, do you start over again?

Tisha: Yes. I think you definitely do. I think you do this every single day. We all know that we’ve been walking down the hall, and our procedures have been broken.

I like to stop. We turn around, and we start over. You have to do this every single day. After Christmas, you have to reteach your procedures.

I think right now is a great time to start parent parties.

That is a breakoff on your classroom community.

Give each child a job to perform as they come into the classroom. What is their responsibility in that classroom community? How can you get that child involved?

And that parent party is just another aspect to get the family involved into your classroom community.

Vicki: How would you define a parent party? Is that when you’re bringing in a parent, you know, or two parents, or however many parents — just at night? Or how does that work?

What does a parent party actually look like?

And I like to do door prizes. So those are some things that you can do.

What about families who cannot attend?

Vicki: So, Tisha, what kind of feedback did you get from parents? What did they say that they liked or didn’t like about these?

What feedback did you get from families about the parent parties?

So that was a big thing. It was always the time. I tried to make a time that they could all be there.

Vicki: OK. So, we have a fantastic idea for having parent parties and building those classroom communities.

And if you’re struggling with those parents, then perhaps a parent party might be a great idea, because you know we’re all on the same team, and it’s all about educating the kids.

Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford [email protected]

Bio as submitted

Blog: http://busyclassroom.weebly.com/tishas-ideas-and-thoughts-blog-pages

Twitter: @tishashipley

The post Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. Meow!

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Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties

Dr. Tisha Shipley on episode 299 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter

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Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties

Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e299 Date: April 26, 2018

Vicki: Today we’re talking to Dr. Tisha Shipley from Ashford University about building family relationships and having parent parties.

So, Tisha, what is the secret for building effective family relationships within your classroom?

What’s the secret?

Tisha: I would say that the secret to building effective relationships is to start before you even meet them.

So I liked to send out a postcard. We know that snail mail — it’s starting to become extinct, but today I would still send out a postcard welcoming that family to my classroom.

What about students who join in the middle of the year?

Tisha: Most definitely. And this happens all of the time.

So my favorite thing to do was to invite the family the day that the child got there to invite the family as soon as they could come in to have a night with me after school.

Vicki: So you’re really talking younger grades, here, though, right? What grades?

Vicki: Now so many teachers feel overworked. And they’re like, “Oh my goodness! Tisha, you’re just adding something else to my list! How am I going to have time to do this?”

What’s your advice?

How is a busy teacher going to find time to do this?

So, you really don’t have to do anything extra. It’s that differentiation it’s that building that community of learners that’s engaged all the time.

Vicki: OK. So Tisha, let’s say a teacher’s new to this. It’s kind of the middle of the school year, and it’s a disaster. It’s not going like it needs to.

What do you do? Can you reboot?

If the classroom community is a disaster, do you start over again?

Tisha: Yes. I think you definitely do. I think you do this every single day. We all know that we’ve been walking down the hall, and our procedures have been broken.

I like to stop. We turn around, and we start over. You have to do this every single day. After Christmas, you have to reteach your procedures.

I think right now is a great time to start parent parties.

That is a breakoff on your classroom community.

Give each child a job to perform as they come into the classroom. What is their responsibility in that classroom community? How can you get that child involved?

And that parent party is just another aspect to get the family involved into your classroom community.

Vicki: How would you define a parent party? Is that when you’re bringing in a parent, you know, or two parents, or however many parents — just at night? Or how does that work?

What does a parent party actually look like?

And I like to do door prizes. So those are some things that you can do.

What about families who cannot attend?

Vicki: So, Tisha, what kind of feedback did you get from parents? What did they say that they liked or didn’t like about these?

What feedback did you get from families about the parent parties?

So that was a big thing. It was always the time. I tried to make a time that they could all be there.

Vicki: OK. So, we have a fantastic idea for having parent parties and building those classroom communities.

And if you’re struggling with those parents, then perhaps a parent party might be a great idea, because you know we’re all on the same team, and it’s all about educating the kids.

Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford [email protected]

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Blog: http://busyclassroom.weebly.com/tishas-ideas-and-thoughts-blog-pages

Twitter: @tishashipley

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Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties

Dr. Tisha Shipley on episode 299 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter

Engage parents any time of the year with these strategies. Parent parties are fun, exciting ways to help parents and improve relationships. You can do this any time of the school year.

Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online PD courses for K-12 teachers. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout for 20% off any course.

Listen Now

Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher

Stream by clicking here.

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Building a Classroom Community by Having Parent Parties

Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e299 Date: April 26, 2018

Vicki: Today we’re talking to Dr. Tisha Shipley from Ashford University about building family relationships and having parent parties.

So, Tisha, what is the secret for building effective family relationships within your classroom?

What’s the secret?

Tisha: I would say that the secret to building effective relationships is to start before you even meet them.

So I liked to send out a postcard. We know that snail mail — it’s starting to become extinct, but today I would still send out a postcard welcoming that family to my classroom.

What about students who join in the middle of the year?

Tisha: Most definitely. And this happens all of the time.

So my favorite thing to do was to invite the family the day that the child got there to invite the family as soon as they could come in to have a night with me after school.

Vicki: So you’re really talking younger grades, here, though, right? What grades?

Vicki: Now so many teachers feel overworked. And they’re like, “Oh my goodness! Tisha, you’re just adding something else to my list! How am I going to have time to do this?”

What’s your advice?

How is a busy teacher going to find time to do this?

So, you really don’t have to do anything extra. It’s that differentiation it’s that building that community of learners that’s engaged all the time.

Vicki: OK. So Tisha, let’s say a teacher’s new to this. It’s kind of the middle of the school year, and it’s a disaster. It’s not going like it needs to.

What do you do? Can you reboot?

If the classroom community is a disaster, do you start over again?

Tisha: Yes. I think you definitely do. I think you do this every single day. We all know that we’ve been walking down the hall, and our procedures have been broken.

I like to stop. We turn around, and we start over. You have to do this every single day. After Christmas, you have to reteach your procedures.

I think right now is a great time to start parent parties.

That is a breakoff on your classroom community.

Give each child a job to perform as they come into the classroom. What is their responsibility in that classroom community? How can you get that child involved?

And that parent party is just another aspect to get the family involved into your classroom community.

Vicki: How would you define a parent party? Is that when you’re bringing in a parent, you know, or two parents, or however many parents — just at night? Or how does that work?

What does a parent party actually look like?

And I like to do door prizes. So those are some things that you can do.

What about families who cannot attend?

Vicki: So, Tisha, what kind of feedback did you get from parents? What did they say that they liked or didn’t like about these?

What feedback did you get from families about the parent parties?

So that was a big thing. It was always the time. I tried to make a time that they could all be there.

Vicki: OK. So, we have a fantastic idea for having parent parties and building those classroom communities.

And if you’re struggling with those parents, then perhaps a parent party might be a great idea, because you know we’re all on the same team, and it’s all about educating the kids.

Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford [email protected]

Bio as submitted

Blog: http://busyclassroom.weebly.com/tishas-ideas-and-thoughts-blog-pages

Twitter: @tishashipley

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

Leah LaCrosse on episode 272 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

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Leah LaCrosse shares six edtech ideas science teachers can start using today to improve learning and excite students about science.

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Whether it is earth science, life science, or physical science you can reinforce, reteach, and take kids further as they play the science games at legendsoflearning.com. And thanks to Legends of Learning for sponsoring science week this week on the 10-Minute Teacher.

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Link to show: www.coollcatteacher.com/e272 Date: March 13, 2018

Vicki: Today we’re talking with Leah LaCrosse @llacrosse, a 20-year veteran science teacher from Ohio.

Leah, today, we’re going to talk about how to use technology to make science more exciting and more effective.

So, Leah, what’s your first idea for using technology to engage kids in science?

Leah: Well, some of the best tools that I’ve used in the classroom are those that simply enhance the student’s voice.

Tools to enhance student voice

It could be a medium like maybe FlipGrid, where they’re sharing their ideas of a lab or a topic that we’re covering.

And it’s using video, which seems like it’s a really native platform for them right now.

So one of the things I try to do is give the students the technology that takes their ideas and enhances them for them, just in their everyday conversation.

Vicki: OK. What’s another idea?

Leah: Another way that I try to give students technology to showcase their science understanding is through like tools that help them to maybe build electronic books.

Tools to build eBooks to demonstrate understanding

For example, we use in my 8th-grade science class Book Creator for students to develop everything from science lab reports to personal studies that they do — like individual investigations — and even just topic research.

See my review of Book Creator for Chrome

With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text. It gives them a couple different ways to share their understanding.

For me, as a science teacher, I can look through it, and I can see exactly what they’re hitting, what they understand, and maybe some areas that they’re misunderstanding.

Is technology a distraction?

Vicki: So, Leah, is there ever a time that either of these technologies have been a distraction, or do you feel like it really moves the science learning forward?

Leah: Well, I think that both of them — and really any technology that I would use — there is that beginning time period where it’s like sandbox time where they’re just learning how to use it.

I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software. And then I think that they get the play out of the way.

After the first maybe — first or second time using it — then I really start looking for the science content to be showcased because…

Let’s be honest. Like FlipGrid video is so much fun. And the first time the students use it, they want to get their friends in the video with them, and they even want to show their dogs and cats at home, and all of that.

So, really, like… it can be a distraction at first. So that’s why I always model with the students.

“This is the proper way to create your video,” or “This is the proper way to set up your Book Creator book that you’re making.”

But then also giving them a couple chances at maybe making a few of those beginner mistakes and getting a little goofy, and then, “Get it out of your system, because this is for a grade.”

Sandboxes and rubrics

And rubrics. Rubrics help a lot, because then, students are engaged, but they’re also invested in it because they know exactly what target they’re shooting for.

Vicki: And I just want to stress — also as a fellow technology educator — that sandboxing is so important.

This is has been a vital strategy of mine in my 16 years of teaching.

When I introduce a new tool to give that 5, 10, 15 minutes to play with the tool, enjoy the tool, experience the tool, get excited about it.

And THEN start using it for learning. A sandbox can be such an important principle.

OK. So you’ve talked about FlipGrid. You’ve talked about Book Creator.

Do you have any other favorite tools?

Expose students to various tools for taking notes — visual or other

Leah: Well, I really, really like to get my students to sketch out their ideas.

So we use the Paper 53 app on our iPads. I, of course, start off again by modeling — what does a SketchNote — or what could a SketchNote — look like? Just short videos in class, or short labs, even lectures where there are just a couple of points being made.

See Epic Sketchnoting Resources

We do a couple of SketchNotes together, and so students learn to draft out their ideas in a more visual way.

And I use this at the beginning of the year, and I give the students a couple of opportunities to work with it.

But then I also partway through the year open it up. “If this is your Go To for sharing your notes, keep using it. But if this isn’t working for you, like, let’s find something different.”

It might be typing up your notes in a Google Doc.

It might be just writing it in your science notebook. Whatever works.

But I like to introduce the tool early enough, give them a couple of opportunities, and I’ve seen some amazing student SketchNotes just using a free app like Paper 53. It’s perfect for them.

Vicki: And visual cues are so important.

And handwriting is important, particularly for math and science, they’ve found.

You know, you have to be careful. Because some kids — when they take notes typing — will just transcribe instead of actually processing what they’re learning. So those visual cues are so important with SketchNoting.

So, you what? It actually looks like you’ve given us four ideas.

Can we have a fifth idea for technology and science?

Leah: One of the best ways, I feel like using the devices that we have available to us. Like our mobile devices, especially in science, is using that camera feature and having the students like capture a photo and annotate over the top of it.

Use the camera feature on any mobile device

So it could just be in the regular camera app, in the photos app, or it could be something like Skitch that they annotate over top of. But using the picture and then even using videos from the classroom, and have them use slow-motion and watch it over and over and over again.

Sometimes, I feel like in science, they give us answers that they think are the right answers, not what they’re actually seeing, or hat they’re viewing. So by having them use that camera and use slow-motion and use annotation, you’re just focusing them back on the fact that science is visual and I need to report what I see. My experiment isn’t always a cookie cutter answer, so …

We have so many awesome mobile devices, and so many short cycle apps that allow us to capture video and capture images and work with them.

Vicki: And the idea of actually filming science experiments is such a fantastic icea.

I just remember setting up labs and taking forever setting up the lab.

And then the reaction takes just seconds. And if you miss it? Then it’s like — (aaack) — what do I do? Do I start over? I don’t have time to start over. And I don’t really know what happened.

And that’s so fantastic because you can replay that experiment and see what happened, can’t you?

Leah: Yes. Over and over.

And some of the things that the students understand now, with Newton’s Laws and action and reaction is because of that ability to use slow motion and just watch it again and again.

They’ll play it over and over again.

And a lot of what we take in video, I share on our class Instagram account.

So there are kids that are watching that science experiment, and even just like Newton’s Cradle — you know, going back and forth — they’re watching that science over and over again.

It just has a little bit deeper context for them at that point.

Vicki: I love that.

Now, do you use robots?

Leah: We do.

What about robotics?

In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit.

We’ve even used mini Spheros and Ollie.

We get into a little bit of a light coding with it, but with my Spheros, they can do so many engineering challenges with them.

See Top Tips for Teaching with Robots Using Sphero

It’s great that they can learn some coding, but it’s even better that they can learn that design thinking, and that they can do rapid prototyping.

Really, it’s just a matter of giving them a prompt and watching the kids use some of those old-school tools and blend it with the current technology.

I feel like they’re much more invested in the science at that point.

We do use LEGO Mindstorms with like a couple kids here and there will LOVE to work with LEGO Mindstorms, and I have a robotics club that will use those.

But really, every unit I can pull Spheros into, no matter what the content. So that’s my Go To robot. (laughs)

Vicki: OK, so this could seem overwhelming.

It’s obvious you have been using technology for a while.

If you have a teacher who is in science, and maybe they’ve been teaching for a while. And they want to get started using a technology.

Which of these you’ve mentioned today is a great way to get started?

Leah: I would say looking at what they’re most comfortable with anyway.

For me, I have a Master’s Degree in Literacy. So for me, using Book Creator and using book-building tools came naturally for me.

So when I first got my iPad, I was asking my fifth graders to create cartoons and create books and do things that were more literacy based. That was my first — and my most current understanding. I really got into that.

Then I had some success there and started to break out using iPads more in the lab setting.

So my gut instinct is that I would start out with something like Book Creator because it’s something that you can use over and over and over throughout the year. It’s relatively easy to break into. But I think it gives the teacher and the students confidence in using technology with science.

Start using technology within your comfort zone

So that would be my first. And then branching out.

Vicki: And if that doesn’t work, they can always start filming their experiments, can’t they?

Leah: Exactly. (laughs)

Vicki: Yeah, that’s another great one.

So science teachers, you know… Technology is another tool in your toolkit.

It’s a great way to add to what you’re doing.

I mean, you’re already… you know, science. I mean, it’s so fascinating, especially when it’s hands-on and you get kids involved.

You just have so many more tools in your toolbox now, and these are some great ones to get started.

We will share Leah’s information in the Shownotes, because she has so many more ideas.

I hope that you’ll use these to make your science class more exciting!

Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford [email protected]

Bio as submitted

Leah is a 20-year veteran educator. Working in the area of social studies at the start, she later found her passion in teaching science. Currently, Leah works with 8th-grade scientists. Her main mission is to help support their development in science and science communication. Grant writing and awards have brought many resources to her science classroom. From iPads to robotics to 3d printers, science exploration with technology support is happening in @lacrossescience.

Blog: leahlacrosse.blogspot.com

Twitter: @llacrosse

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

Leah LaCrosse on episode 272 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter

Leah LaCrosse shares six edtech ideas science teachers can start using today to improve learning and excite students about science.

Listen Now

Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher

Stream by clicking here.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas

Link to show: www.coollcatteacher.com/e272 Date: March 13, 2018

Vicki: Today we’re talking with Leah LaCrosse @llacrosse, a 20-year veteran science teacher from Ohio.

Leah, today, we’re going to talk about how to use technology to make science more exciting and more effective.

So, Leah, what’s your first idea for using technology to engage kids in science?

Leah: Well, some of the best tools that I’ve used in the classroom are those that simply enhance the student’s voice.

Tools to enhance student voice

It could be a medium like maybe FlipGrid, where they’re sharing their ideas of a lab or a topic that we’re covering.

And it’s using video, which seems like it’s a really native platform for them right now.

So one of the things I try to do is give the students the technology that takes their ideas and enhances them for them, just in their everyday conversation.

Vicki: OK. What’s another idea?

Leah: Another way that I try to give students technology to showcase their science understanding is through like tools that help them to maybe build electronic books.

Tools to build eBooks to demonstrate understanding

See my review of Book Creator for Chrome

With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text. It gives them a couple different ways to share their understanding.

For me, as a science teacher, I can look through it, and I can see exactly what they’re hitting, what they understand, and maybe some areas that they’re misunderstanding.

Is technology a distraction?

Vicki: So, Leah, is there ever a time that either of these technologies have been a distraction, or do you feel like it really moves the science learning forward?

I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software. And then I think that they get the play out of the way.

After the first maybe — first or second time using it — then I really start looking for the science content to be showcased because…

So, really, like… it can be a distraction at first. So that’s why I always model with the students.

“This is the proper way to create your video,” or “This is the proper way to set up your Book Creator book that you’re making.”

But then also giving them a couple chances at maybe making a few of those beginner mistakes and getting a little goofy, and then, “Get it out of your system, because this is for a grade.”

Sandboxes and rubrics

And rubrics. Rubrics help a lot, because then, students are engaged, but they’re also invested in it because they know exactly what target they’re shooting for.

Vicki: And I just want to stress — also as a fellow technology educator — that sandboxing is so important.

This is has been a vital strategy of mine in my 16 years of teaching.

When I introduce a new tool to give that 5, 10, 15 minutes to play with the tool, enjoy the tool, experience the tool, get excited about it.

And THEN start using it for learning. A sandbox can be such an important principle.

OK. So you’ve talked about FlipGrid. You’ve talked about Book Creator.

Do you have any other favorite tools?

Expose students to various tools for taking notes — visual or other

Leah: Well, I really, really like to get my students to sketch out their ideas.

See Epic Sketchnoting Resources

We do a couple of SketchNotes together, and so students learn to draft out their ideas in a more visual way.

And I use this at the beginning of the year, and I give the students a couple of opportunities to work with it.

But then I also partway through the year open it up. “If this is your Go To for sharing your notes, keep using it. But if this isn’t working for you, like, let’s find something different.”

It might be typing up your notes in a Google Doc.

It might be just writing it in your science notebook. Whatever works.

But I like to introduce the tool early enough, give them a couple of opportunities, and I’ve seen some amazing student SketchNotes just using a free app like Paper 53. It’s perfect for them.

Vicki: And visual cues are so important.

And handwriting is important, particularly for math and science, they’ve found.

So, you what? It actually looks like you’ve given us four ideas.

Can we have a fifth idea for technology and science?

Use the camera feature on any mobile device

We have so many awesome mobile devices, and so many short cycle apps that allow us to capture video and capture images and work with them.

Vicki: And the idea of actually filming science experiments is such a fantastic icea.

I just remember setting up labs and taking forever setting up the lab.

And that’s so fantastic because you can replay that experiment and see what happened, can’t you?

Leah: Yes. Over and over.

And some of the things that the students understand now, with Newton’s Laws and action and reaction is because of that ability to use slow motion and just watch it again and again.

They’ll play it over and over again.

And a lot of what we take in video, I share on our class Instagram account.

So there are kids that are watching that science experiment, and even just like Newton’s Cradle — you know, going back and forth — they’re watching that science over and over again.

It just has a little bit deeper context for them at that point.

Vicki: I love that.

Now, do you use robots?

Leah: We do.

What about robotics?

In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit.

We’ve even used mini Spheros and Ollie.

We get into a little bit of a light coding with it, but with my Spheros, they can do so many engineering challenges with them.

See Top Tips for Teaching with Robots Using Sphero

It’s great that they can learn some coding, but it’s even better that they can learn that design thinking, and that they can do rapid prototyping.

Really, it’s just a matter of giving them a prompt and watching the kids use some of those old-school tools and blend it with the current technology.

I feel like they’re much more invested in the science at that point.

We do use LEGO Mindstorms with like a couple kids here and there will LOVE to work with LEGO Mindstorms, and I have a robotics club that will use those.

But really, every unit I can pull Spheros into, no matter what the content. So that’s my Go To robot. (laughs)

Vicki: OK, so this could seem overwhelming.

It’s obvious you have been using technology for a while.

If you have a teacher who is in science, and maybe they’ve been teaching for a while. And they want to get started using a technology.

Which of these you’ve mentioned today is a great way to get started?

Leah: I would say looking at what they’re most comfortable with anyway.

For me, I have a Master’s Degree in Literacy. So for me, using Book Creator and using book-building tools came naturally for me.

Then I had some success there and started to break out using iPads more in the lab setting.

Start using technology within your comfort zone

So that would be my first. And then branching out.

Vicki: And if that doesn’t work, they can always start filming their experiments, can’t they?

Leah: Exactly. (laughs)

Vicki: Yeah, that’s another great one.

So science teachers, you know… Technology is another tool in your toolkit.

It’s a great way to add to what you’re doing.

I mean, you’re already… you know, science. I mean, it’s so fascinating, especially when it’s hands-on and you get kids involved.

You just have so many more tools in your toolbox now, and these are some great ones to get started.

We will share Leah’s information in the Shownotes, because she has so many more ideas.

I hope that you’ll use these to make your science class more exciting!

Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford [email protected]

Bio as submitted

Blog: leahlacrosse.blogspot.com

Twitter: @llacrosse

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