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Lance's avatar

That strikes a chord. As an example from another field, I was a very serious young trumpet player. My teacher, who played in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, had me pick random instructions from a hat: "You got stuck in traffic, so you have to warm up in 2 minutes," "You got the time wrong and you have to kill 90 minutes before you perform," etc. It was a great lesson for trumpet playing and many other things.

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Jeff Belcik's avatar

I think there's a optimistic slant to Sod's/Murphy's Law, which is that, if anything can and will go wrong, I can be prepared for it and have a plan in place. I think this would be a great way to frame classroom management to the new teachers at my school.

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