Dear Students, Shum here. I bet you thought I couldn't figure out how to work this web-site.
Life is still good here in the Snell Building. A few things have changed so let me tell you about them. First of all, after much consideration, Dr. Berrett decided to move with his family to Blanding, Utah and teach high school. The community is real privileged to have someone with his abilities. I miss him but respect his desires to be with his family more.
To fill this vacancy we were very fortunate to be able to hire Geoff Wright to teach the multimedia classes. Geoff is doing a great job and we are having fun with our TTE family here in the Snell.
Speaking of family, I have hopefully included a picture of mine here somewhere. My children are all involved in athletics and other extra-curricular activities. My wife Joyce stays very busy with her exercise program, cub scouts and helping in our children's classrooms at school.
I am still the Bishop of our family ward in American Fork which keeps me busy but I enjoy the service opportunities. Last year I was able to obtain tenure and I am involved with several projects including a National Science Foundation center for teaching and learning and a curriculum and teacher development project in the African nation of Ghana. As such I travel more than i want but I enjoy interacting with teachers from other parts of the world.
Well, I better get back to work. I miss all of you and hope this is a way we can stay connected. If you are looking for employment or have a position at your school let me know and I'll see if I can help. I miss all of you!!! When i hear from you it brings a smile to my face.
Shum
12 comments:
Shum you are my hero! - Jamie Braithwaite
Can I leave a comment if I'm not teaching TTE anymore? :) I'm not a traitor, my program got cut due to funding. It had to do with an audit on the ELL program. ELLs are worth more money for the school and apparently too many were labeled as ELL when they shouldn't have been. Some people's children! Ironically, the district found me a job teaching ELLs in a K-3 building right around the corner from my house. I love the little kids and I use my tech ed background whenever I can. My goal this year is to get the 2nd and 3rd graders to create a podcast.
I'm getting my masters in ed along with an ESOL and elementary endorsement from Western Oregon University. (I love on-line classes.) If that doesn't make me 'highly qualified' then I don't know what the heck will! J/K I'm a BYU TTE grad, I'm already HQ, and I passed the silly tests so that it would say so on my license.
I'm in Boardman, Oregon. My oldest, who I had to take to classes a few times - remember in Berrett's class someone came in and said, "There's a baby crying ... does he belong to anyone?" - yeah, that was my Ethan - he started kindgarten this year! Myles Summit is a 3 year old spittin' image of me in every way. Cedar Emelie is dang near the prettiest little 1 year old girl I have ever seen. The end.
I love to go back to my TTE days in my head. Thanks Shum, Berrett, and all you really, really, really good looking and talented people!
Shum, you are a wonderful teacher! Thanks to you I was able to pass my Praxis on the first try and it was because of all your corny little sayings and songs that taught me electronic stuff that I really would never have retained any other way! I owe you!!!
It is always so good to hear from you, Shum! You are a great teacher and a wonderful life trainer. I have found a lot of success thanks to you. I hope everything continues going well for you.
Shum,
BYU was great but I am so very glad to be out of Utah and away from the busy life that large populations can bring. I am fortunate that my experience with Shum didn't end with graduation, and it actually grew as we moved to Wyoming, and into a ward where his dad was assigned as the high councilor. I was called a little later as Bishop and got to spend a lot more time with his dad and mom as they came over to visit.
Shum, can I say how great it was to meet your entire family this summer at your dad's birthday party. Everybody who might post here probably doesn't realize what the entire Shum clan is like.
We are going to miss having your dad as our high councilman. He really fit in here and got along with us hicks real well. I miss having your mom come over and give me a detailed report on each of your kids and what they are doing. I'll also miss looking out into the congregation and seeing your face once in a while. Don't be a stranger up here.
“Are we groovy? I am because I’m from the 70’s!”
“I was pushing hard on the marker—phew! I’m exhausted!”
“Write this formula and make it stick out of your pocket, and the ladies will go ‘OH MAN’!”
“I would go to a dance at the Wilk, and say that I’m from Wyoming, and then I’d be like ‘where’d you go’?”
“I’ve been in the hospital twice from horses.”
“I went to the WWF in San Jose—I went there and was like ‘look—there’s 2 lanes on the road!”
“My dad is a genuine rancher.”
“You’ve gotta keep the smoke INSIDE the chip!”
“Make my day punk! I don’t know if I have 5 or 6 shots!”
“No killing innocent things—we’ll have some group come and protest!”
“I love these problems…I’m getting teary.”
“I’ve got a feeling—a feeling deep inside!”
“I just had an itch in my neck.”
“It’s a good thing you have your scriptures in your hand.”
“If the kids knew they were learning, they’d rebel!”
“There’s always the Shum way of remembering things.”
“In the tunnel, out the funnel.”
“I forgot one of my little Shum-ways!”
“This looks like an old lady dye-ode.”
“You’d be listening to the Chipmunks!”
“You didn’t need to know that!”
“When the 2nd coming comes, the lawyers will be gone and the teachers will get their salary!”
“Heaven’s like Circuitmaker, and coming to earth is like Traxmaker.”
“This is my package right here!” (flexes) “They don’t just give these babies out!”
“They’re ditching school, they’re sluffing—oh, I guess that’s the same thing!”
“We had a lot of rattlers where I grew up.”
“When I first started teaching, I wasn’t ‘The Shum’.”
“I used to ride horses a lot, and I’d be dreaming of slaying dragons.”
“Sorry about your foot—you’ve got more toenails!”
“For those of you who aren’t at the translated stage…”
“Even though this is analog, it’s digital grading!”
“There he goes again! He’s talking all these weird terms!”
“I almost have Berrett trained not to ask questions at faculty meeting.”
“I taught Flash once and they kicked me out of high school!”
“Dear President Bateman, please watch the following video…”
“By the way, there’s going to be kids in the class when you get there!”
“Do we have to hold you upside down by your ankles?”
(Motorcycle roars outside) “How do you like that for emphasis!”
“I only have one shirt!”
“You’re going to say ‘I don’t give a crud about this!’—I don’t either!”
“Holy crud, who did that?”
“There’s no light coming from me!”
“Abe and I have a special relationship.”
“I’ve been fighting that sneeze for 5 minutes!”
“My wife comes home, and says ‘where’s that blinking husband of mine?’”
“Please don’t eat anything, because I don’t want anyone choking!”
“Mr. Possible has them all in!”
“I want to make it easy so you can get Berrett’s stuff done.”
“No potato guns! We like some destruction, but not that much destruction!”
“Can I say that again? This time you’ll listen!”
“What the heck is this? This is something, and it’s really cool!”
“Several things have happened this semester that have shaken my Shum-a-bility.”
“Abe, you are always the subject of all my negative feelings!”
“They stole my idea—I could’ve been a millionaire!”
“I didn’t want them to think I was feminine or something!—not that I’m not masculine!”
“We’ve got the blue light special here!”
“That was a Yoda!”
“For someone who is geeky like me, this is cool!”
“I know it’s not the 70’s, but it’s coming back!”
“I’m stealing from all sorts of things!”
“Teaching you guys is like when I student taught at Jr. High!”
“The teacher wasn’t looking so I slid on the ice.”
“We’ve got all kinds of funny guys in here today!”
“Do a dance, and say ‘I nailed that baby!’”
“Ohm married Watt’s sister.”
“It’s much better to know when the shock is coming!”
“I just broke into song!”
“I have all my lesson plans—except for RoboLab. I’m running on empty!”
“If you shoot from the hip, the students will get you eventually!”
“I forgot what I was saying!”
“I feel the blood pressure coming!”
“I want some ‘Yea Verily’s’ now!”
“Vodka goes down well—old habits are hard to break!”
“You somewhat got it right!”
“Those I respect I call by their first names.”
“Wait until you see today’s assignment!” (everyone groans)
“I bodyslammed the wasp…I don’t know what got into me! WWF was big at the time!”
“I don’t think I kept all the rules!”
“I’m going to spray you down!”
“You nervous? Good!”
“We’re not talking about Yankee Stadium, but a Little League Park.”
“I was going to say something else, but I’m a good person.”
“When in doubt, hand it in and walk out.”
“I haven’t picked on the front row the whole day!”
“Come around the kerner..”
“Michael Jackson bought all the rights to the Beatles songs.”
“It’s like water coming back into the tributaries.”
“When I was a young faculty member I actually cared—now I don’t care anymore!”
“When you’re married, your wife is going to give you two G code at the same time!”
“I’m from Wyoming—I can say it any way I want to!”
“Get your overhead transparencies out!”
“The ship is sinking—please get off the ship!”
“I used to traverse up the mountains!”
“Don’t go to Monty Python!”
“Sometimes I don’t say the right things!”
“We’re going to make wassle!”
“Don’t I deserve some respect? What have I done?”
“It’s non-Shumwayistic!”
“I was welding, and I’m like ‘man, it’s hot!’”
“I caught on fire.”
“It was kinda fun to yell at the high school students!”
“I like to raise your blood pressure!”
“I know you guys don’t care, but I just want to discuss!”
“I can be here, there, and everywhere—Beatles 1964.”
“Read the destructions.”
“I want to print out your negatives today—I hate to be negative to start class! Ha ha ha!”
“Should I end the pain?”
“Nothing is more exciting then being with the Shum in a hot tub during a lightning storm!”
“You guys don’t do this to anyone else, do you?”
“I appreciate you guys helping me out by turning in your assignments late!”
“See what you miss when you don’t come to my class?”
“I’m dealing with adults—so to speak!”
“It was against the rules to have sunflower seeds on the bus!”
“I had that dam example!”
“I’ve got the weekend open—anyone want to get married?”
“Wham! Was a group in the 80’s.”
“I get paid, and I don’t even have to teach my classes anymore—my students do!”
“I appreciate you guys trying to help me out every once in a while—but not today!”
“I’m not in it for the money.”
“I cry a few nights at home thinking about how my students don’t like what I teach.”
“When you open the gate the cows get out.”
“This is Gandolf—‘you shall not pass!’”
“I have an analogy for everything!”
“Don’t laugh at Sterling!”
“One day I’ll do my Mick Jagger for you.”
“I took a chance—I gambled—I lost.”
“I’m tingling all over, because this is so cool.”
“Darby, I’m sorry you had to take this class.”
“You could draw them in your sleep.”
“Wake up Donley!”
“Sorry Darby, but we’re nerds.”
“You know what I meant, not what I said.”
“No bench-sitting!”
“You’ll be spewed forth if you’re water.”
“You’re still awake so I’ll keep going! Well, mostly awake!”
“If I catch any of you smoking in here…”
“The cylinder’s connected to the—valve bone!”
“Ouch! I’m getting old!”
“I feel like a dentist this morning.”
“My dad roped outhouses.”
“This flippin’ thing!”
“Cohen, do you and I need to have a father-son talk?”
“I’ve had some of the best naps during General Conference.”
“I showed my wife the quotes.”
“I don’t want anyone to know what I’m really like!”
“Oh my heck!”
“I will finish by Tuesday or you all get automatic ‘A’s’—better put that on my quote thing!”
“I stayed up until midnight last night to make sure you didn’t get ‘A’s’.”
“You’re at BYU—you can’t do the whiskers!”
“Harper’s sliding!”
“I want you to be amazed at the maze, I want you to see the light with the infrared, and get in step with the stepper motor.”
“You’ve got to give him a kick in the rear—a pulse of energy!”
“Wheeler, you haven’t done any homework, so what are you complaining about?”
“Today’s activity is similar to sleep!”
“My wife does yoga.”
“Why do you think we have those saws in the other room?”
“Alicia and I are going to sing together—don’t tell my wife!”
“Donley, how long have you been my TA? You have to read my mind!”
“If you were shooting a machine gun right now, I’d be nervous.”
“Beggs, cheese, and eggs…”
“Hey, who’s moaning?”
“My mind was 3 miles away!”
“Don’t let me down—that’s the Beatles.”
“Many of you will be in a no-win situation when you get married.”
“Do I pick on Abe too much?”
“I guess I’m too nerdy.”
“We may be breaking bridges in our relationship.”
“Abe turned in a course outline that made me cry.”
“Jason, even though we’re no longer friends…”
“She’s not sorry.”
“Fold your arms!”
“I used to like her!”
“If you weren’t there, I could move the overhead back!”
“I’m showing you multiple different ways.”
“We’ll save MacGyver for 340.”
“Let’s not look at me for design.”
“Shut up!”
“Everything is going bad today!”
“I want to go home this weekend and feel like a teacher this week!”
“If you haven’t shot off a model rocket before, I’m sorry about your childhood.”
“I was going to crash and burn there for a second!”
“Take Shumway’s class, dude—rock on!”
“These quotes are like ‘The Lord of the Rings’!”
“Does the Shum deserve for you to be on time?”
“I’m ready for the excuse!”
“Why are you late, Jamie?”
“When my wife and I were dating, we called those NCM’s”
“I hope it was worth it—in fact, I’m going to go home tonight and describe some of these things to my wife!”
“Founder is when a horse can’t walk.”
“Some of you hid better than others!”
“It’s okay, Paul, I’ll enjoy having you again next semester!”
“It was a much better-er answer!”
“Don’t you feel like you’re a doctoral student?”
“I had all kinds of nicknames!”
“This is the part where most people go to sleep—is it my melodious voice?”
“Those little slimeballs!”
“Wilding—you used to sit and listen!”
“I’m making notes…I’m checking them twice!”
“Well, you came in late, so I don’t care!”
“Are you following me on this Cohen? No you’re not!”
“Would it be okay if I taught you a little bit today?”
“Valerie used to be my favorite student!”
“This project was made by a 4 year old—he’s got most of his fingers left!”
“Basketball was over this weekend, so I was able to do a lot of grading!”
“How many people want to pass?”
“How can I make this one sound exciting?”
“Make fun of them.”
“I said the same thing twice!”
“Berrett says he’s going to double his assignments!”
“For examptle…”
“Packer, are you being disruptive again?”
“Hippies everywhere—people just laying and living!”
“I was thinking of making my final exam harder by including things I’ve never covered before.”
“He’s been here one day, and you’re corrupting him!”
“I was going to search and destroy!”
“You can slum.”
“We got smoked.”
“Packer’s a slacker!”
“Have we learned anything in this class?”
“Packer’s got a 0%!”
“I’m going to put Abe in charge of 30 Jr. High kids tomorrow!”
“If certain people were doing better, I’d pass this around!”
“Is there a fence—they keep the kids in? That didn’t sound very good.”
“We’re wasting time here!”
“It bounced off a kid’s head!”
“Make something that won’t kill anybody!”
“They called me ‘fuzz’!”
“My nickname was ‘Super Twinkie’!”
“My teacher picked me up and banged me against the locker!”
“We had a town of 3000, and 3500 showed up!”
“I saw my shorts on the ground!”
“Implimentationing—I don’t want that in my quotes!”
“I was having fun there and forgot what I was doing!”
“Na Na Na Na Hey Dude!”
“We’re going to barbeque a marshmallow!”
“But man, you freaked me out!”
“We’ve like wasted the whole day!”
“I’m setting a reverent tone.”
“There’s going to be a cute girl in Sunday School, and she’s going to know that I’m a Returned Missionary!”
“Kids these days have to go on the video machine and kill things to get pleasure.”
“I can tell Wilding has been in an experience before where he’s had to swear!”
“I’m justifying my sin!”
“This goes with the Queen stuff—this is free!”
“Abe, I’m trying to teach the students how to deal with students with ADD.”
“Are you doing some laser experiments with those glasses, Ashley?”
“Candace, the rest of this lesson is for you!”
“Carry that 5 gallon bucket of water out to feed the pigs.”
“That’s hard to say! I hope I don’t say anything embarrassing!”
“Not cats, not dogs, not milk cows, but centimeters!”
“I don’t know how big Archimedes is.”
“No dam!”
“Packer, say your wife works and you stay at home…”
“The cool thing about all this is that it’s not too far removed from my high school experience!”
“I get to pick where Abe goes student teaching!”
“Jay, I’ve never seen that side of your eyelids before!”
“Turner, don’t you think that you’ve done enough damage today?”
“Don’t be a wimp!”
“I know that he’s used to slopping the hogs.”
“I’m not going to tell stories today!”
”Stories may kick in any minute here!”
“Next thing I know, I’m holding her shirt, and she’s in the canal!”
“I feel like I’m doing the birds and the bees with you guys!”
“The force is with you young Skywalker!”
“Not just any class on campus can you light an LED with a potato!”
“Yes, Mrs. Johnson, he did stab himself—yes, I did tell him to!”
“Again, we’re back to this dam example!”
“Before, I just didn’t care—now I’m teaching!”
“I’ve repented—the person who operates the dam!”
“I won’t have this example in my high council talk…will I have the spirit to be with me?”
“By the way, I saw her this morning, and she’s still looking good!”
“Come on, everybody’s doing it, Sterling!”
“Don’t get the wrath of Shum!”
“Blame it on the rain! You guys are too young for that!”
“I used to call this the MacGyver lab!”
“You got me ticked off!”
“I’m not going to hold your dang hand…”
“How many of you have been a father at Klondike? A Scout Leader? A Bishopric Member?”
“School House Rock—1976!”
“I was picking up good vibrations!”
“You guys are not fascinated at all!”
“I’m safe as long as I say ‘Gabe’!”
“They don’t like what I’m teaching—so what!”
“Why do we do this? Because we need to confuse our kids growing up.”
“I was going to say ‘shut up’ or something.”
“That’s how we learn in this class—by cheating!”
“Hold the gun up like this…punk!”
“Pretend you’re in somebody else’s class and give me the respect I deserve!”
“I was going to explain this, but now I’m just going to give it to you.”
“These clothes are pretty nice on the Shum!”
“I’ve never danced the way you guys do.”
“Do you feel the love, Scott?”
“Gung ho! That’s the word in Chinese!”
“How’s the attitude today?”
“Don’t call me—come see me!”
“Jason just doesn’t tell all the useless stories I tell.”
“This is like AA, go ahead and admit it!”
“Q is the guy who was on Star Trek all the time!”
“I’ve cleaned up my act—the reservoir operator…”
“Is this Beverly’s cell phone?”
“My wife would be set for life if I touched that!”
“I’ve tried to think of ‘Shum ways’ of doing this!”
“If you promise you’ll never tell this story to any administration…”
“2 important things you’ll need when you leave…#1, the Shum Quotes…”
“My lecture notes say ‘goof around with students for 25 minutes’.”
“We just need to start eliminating Kevins!”
“That’s what happens when you make fun of the Shum—bad things happen!”
“I used to have good jokes 10, 20 years ago!”
“I’ll be reservoir!”
“You guys are too young for the Osmonds—Down by the Lazy River!”
“Vote for somebody who has their hair cut right about here—”
“I want you to know Tucher hands in at least one assignment a semester!”
“We all need to donate a little bit of money so Sterling can get a full piece of paper!”
“Jay, because I like you, you can continue!”
“Are we croovy?”
“You say you want a revolution?”
“Show your spouse or your significant…parent!”
“Anyone for negative acceleration, girls?”
“It would be tough for me, and I’m the Shum!”
“You’ve got an apple going—oh, you’ve got a cookie going!”
“We’re going to have a quizzerino!”
“I saw Ashley and I knew I was starting class late!”
“I said ‘yes’ to make you feel good, but I really lied!”
“You little slimeball, you can’t beat the Shum—I’m getting back in shape and we’re running!”
“Packer’s the only one who’s seen me in short shorts!”
“If allowed to float, floatation will occur.”
“Back row smart aleks!”
“It was always Polo and a haircut that did it for my wife!”
“We used alcohol for science!”
“Andreas, there aren’t some type of people you’re going to report me to, are you?”
“You can laugh, you can talk to your neighbor, but you can’t saw during my lesson!”
“I’d like to bear my testimony…”
“That wasn’t supposed to be funny—it was supposed to be ‘I believe Brother Shumway!’”
“Put me in charge of church basketball, but don’t put me in charge of a social!”
“Let’s say I have a window in my house…I do have a window in my house.”
“I will tell you the camping story if you promise not to overreact!”
“Pinch it off!”
“Please don’t go drink the gasoline!”
“What a slimeball I am!”
“I just want you guys to make me look good!”
“We’re in the ‘80’s…no wait, we’re not in the ‘80’s anymore!”
“What do you want to do? I don’t know…what do you want to do?”
“…With a banjo on his knee!”
“I’m ready to give Sterling a Bishop’s interview!”
“By the way, this is a true story—don’t turn me in!”
“I always need to see who’s here before I tell stories.”
“We have to be different because we’re Americans, dang it!”
“Mr. Packer, stop bothering those girls—you’re engaged!”
“I really shouldn’t tell all these stories…you’re going to think I’m a bad person!”
“I had to swear just so he could hit me back!”
“I don’t think I was groovy.”
“We call this the ‘Wheel of Vomit’!”
“Thanks for your pen, Tucher, because I know it wasn’t going to be used for anything else!”
“Maybe I need to take a minute and explain what a cassette player is.”
“Dude, the teacher’s dead! …Next!”
“I’ll just tell you how they do it, and then we won’t do it!”
“You go to Oktoberfest, and that’s drinking beer!”
“He was sleeping earlier and it was nice!”
“(sneeze) holy cow—that thing came from my toes!”
“I’m allergic to learning!”
“Don’t let your peers drag you down, yea verily!”
“This isn’t going to go anywhere good!”
“You were all doing the woogie boogie!”
“Candace, it was all quiet until you showed up!”
“I doubt it, but that could be interesting!”
“Go to grandma and grandpa’s attic and calculate thermal conductivity!”
“You’re welcome for this house knowledge—teachers don’t have to do this!”
“This is supposed to be boring—you’re supposed to be falling asleep instead of talking and laughing!”
“These Shum Quotes are a paper trail!”
“Let me read this before you go ‘waaaaaaaaa!’”
“Have I given you enough time to let someone slip you the answer?”
“Packer was doing a really good job of looking like he was paying attention!”
“Why are we doing this? I have no idea, but it’s fun to put this up here!”
“It’s either the Philippines or the Kimball tower!”
“Jason, you’re supposed to be part of the solution, not the problem!”
“You were witnesses! He ripped my shirt!”
“My boy made the ball smash the people—he’s a product of our society.”
“I better run fast against that bullet so I can win!”
“Any more testimonies? …And I love my roommates!”
“You’re not that good of a guest to our country!”
“How do I know he’s a witch? He’s got the wrong kinetic energy!”
“My feminine side is coming on!”
“I’m still the Shum!”
“Go ahead and say it, Steve!”
“Just go to Hailey!”
“He had a full beard when he was 4!”
“If she talks again, just keep taking points off!”
“Her eyes are getting dreamy, and I’m not that good looking!”
“You are getting sleepy…”
“Release the secret weapon—American Tale!”
“You thought I weighed 2000 pounds—hey, hey, hey!”
“Woah! Chicken sandwich!”
“My wife weighs 139.”
“I’m quitting my job!”
“SUCK!”
“My mind is not linear—ding-ding-ding-ding!”
“Sterling, are you ‘Shum Quotes’?”
“I wanted to be a disc jockey.”
“My wife and I didn’t have a TV for the first 3 years of our marriage!”
“Oh, shut up!”
“It’s a loving shut up!”
“Blood, sweat and tears—1966.”
“Man, it was so good to be born in the ‘60’s!”
“Wilding, you don’t come here late and try to hand out candy and turn on faucets!”
“To be honest…oh I don’t want to go there!”
“Hell-o! Wilford Woodruff built this pulpit!”
“I didn’t realize that there were that many nerdy people in this world of ours!”
“I don’t have that much faith in you guys.”
“Now put your hand in the vice…”
“Whatever the crud…”
“Elder Shumway, did you play high school football?”
“Do I have permission to cover something?”
“I thought I heard a question coming out of your mind!”
“Like a rock—like an idiot!”
“We just zoomed in—oooooh!”
“If you don’t know, call your mom—you need to anyway, it’s been a long time!”
“Wilding, I wanted to make you feel like a part of the class again after you skipped the past week!”
“This is how we watched TV in the ‘70’s!”
“There is a break in the force—I can feel it—people are thinking about other things besides P.O.T.!”
“I want you bored!”
“Once I’ve tootilidged you…”
“…That would be the upchuck ferris wheel!”
“That’s assignment 3—pillage and steal!”
“I’m a nerd! I watch PBS!”
“I need you to take that sticker off, and then you can eat it!”
“How many times have I screwed up so far?”
“I refused to change—no, no, you guys are stupid!”
“Do we have any drug addicts?”
“We’re going to be slobbering all over each other.”
“I’m available—I used to say that a lot as a BYU undergraduate!”
“At the end of the semester, I will request that you get a refund on your tuition!”
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