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Sep 03, 2007 15:05

gah! i was just browsing through the online site for one of my courses, and my professor has posted the syllabus. and so i read it. and the entirety of my semester grade is going to be based on a series of presentations. yikes! now this isn't as unreasonable as it may sound. it's a teaching course and the whole point is to learn how to teach. and ( Read more... )

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deadskie13 September 3 2007, 23:45:27 UTC

Meh. I recall hating such a class, back in the day, myself. And so I understand your apprehension. I'm sure you'll do fine, though--once you get used to it and such. I mean you have the motivation that it'll help you in the end. And, well, that's more than I ever had.

Mmm. It's a very snazzy thing to want to be a teacher. More than once I've thought that perhaps in another life that I should have or could have or would have become a teacher. But then I remember that I don't like kids, really. And there's too much pressure, besides. And so it's best if I just stand off to the side and tip my hat to those who can take on such a role. Yus. And so, ::tips::

(It would be brilliant, though. Most brilliant. To be able to get a hold of young minds before the life is completely sucked out of them. To find them and show them how to put up barriers before corruption consumes them. Would be most fantastic, really. To point them in the right direction.)

rainyshana September 6 2007, 03:22:18 UTC

I used to think that the most important thing would be to teach them something I loved (like literature) and that through showing them how wonderful these other worlds could be that they would start to love it too. And maybe that will happen, and if it does that would be great. But i've started to think that the more important thing, when they are young, at least, is to show them that they have worthwhile thoughts, and that the subject i teach doesn't really matter as much. so up until recently, this summer really, i was very focused on what i was going to teach, but now the importance of the content has faded to the back of my mind and i'm more interested in how to teach ( ... )