Profile of An Effective Teacher

Check what's for lunch.  Don't pay the five dollars.  Instead, nibble on the orange you brought that stung your hangnails when you peeled it open.  Wait.  Students will appear to see what you're eating.  Offer to share some.  They will turn up their noses and wander away.  Look out towards the active vent in the volcano.  Look for vog.  Check if you can take a deep breath without coughing.  Neaten some stacks of papers, you can't read the students' handwriting anyway, only the A students seem to avoid writing LOL, OMG, IDC, WTF.  Daydream about squirrels, owls, wolves.