Adult Education-Hall and Oats
Today I have learned...Not to set expectations too high....Not to dream the impossible dream....Not to think every day at work will be like the last...and...Not to stop learning.
Thrown into covering an 11th grade English class for another co-worker, I found that teens will test the teacher.
With cottin in ear, from the previously mentioned middle ear infection of the day before...I may have been lucky to only be listening to half of the conversations that took place during the test that I administered. First of all I have never read Steinbeck's "The Pearl", and second of all, I don't think the kids taking the test had either! But after a set of three to four word answers they made it through...and so did I.
Upon the ringing of the bell that needed to sound about fifteen minutes before it's time....WE had managed to get through a 45 minute class....without incident.
Tomorrow, I have decided to wear a silly hat, play Beat the PRO, (of which I always intentionally lose) and pass out candy to all. After I gain a repoir with this group of showmen...I will then attempt to follow the lesson plans of another...and smile...realizing that I still...have much to learn.
Adult Education, Bad Education, Advanced Education, Higher Education, Public Education...
And a quote from King Friday the XIII of Mister Roger's..."What is Education coming to?"
Thrown into covering an 11th grade English class for another co-worker, I found that teens will test the teacher.
With cottin in ear, from the previously mentioned middle ear infection of the day before...I may have been lucky to only be listening to half of the conversations that took place during the test that I administered. First of all I have never read Steinbeck's "The Pearl", and second of all, I don't think the kids taking the test had either! But after a set of three to four word answers they made it through...and so did I.
Upon the ringing of the bell that needed to sound about fifteen minutes before it's time....WE had managed to get through a 45 minute class....without incident.
Tomorrow, I have decided to wear a silly hat, play Beat the PRO, (of which I always intentionally lose) and pass out candy to all. After I gain a repoir with this group of showmen...I will then attempt to follow the lesson plans of another...and smile...realizing that I still...have much to learn.
Adult Education, Bad Education, Advanced Education, Higher Education, Public Education...
And a quote from King Friday the XIII of Mister Roger's..."What is Education coming to?"
posted by Mental Notes @ 9:05 PM
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