Translating Teenglish

"It's the mystery of mysteries -- especially to parents -- the unpredictable and sometimes incomprehensible moods and behaviors of the American teenager. Generations of adults have pondered its cause. Hormones? Rock music? Boredom? Drugs?"

Frontline: Inside The Teenage Brain
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/adolescent.html

Sweating the job?

"We should be inspiring, not perspiring."
- Unknown

Who's working the hardest to make your classroom function? Do your students arrive each day expecting to be entertained complacently, jumping through one-size-fits-all hoops, or thinking rigorously? My goal is to focus on this quote and these questions this week.