"See the animal in his cage that you built..."

[alexr_rwx]

- Camp makes me want to teach highschool. Something is deeply, deeply wrong, and I think I could do better. It's not just that kids seem to be trained to tune out teachers, teachers are trained to tune out kids. People can't see when they've stopped saying words and started being background noise, at least not some of them -- at Maclay, even, O Tallahassee people! You remember a few classes like that, I'm sure! No more highschool-as-holding-pen. Teaching shouldn't be thought of as this quixotic endurance sport, either... it doesn't need to be hard. It's just people. Kids are just people. Teachers are just people. Maybe after the MS, I'll go back to highschool for a while... (Christin scottiegirlc, what do you know about this?)

- Some of our campers this session turn out to be pretty l337 :) We'll make them l337-er, perhaps.

- Also: "Right Where It Belongs" is totally a ska track waiting to happen. A ska track with heavily solipsist overtones!!

Comments

[zip4096.livejournal.com]

Alex, I think you'd be a fantastic teacher of any sort :)

A lot of the classes in HS I found to be less than inspiring... I'd be curious to hear which ones you found particularly problematic, though.

There was definitely a sore lack of school-caused computer learning in HS, for me... I mean, I loved Mr. Taylor but he wasn't able to teach us much, although I'll forever be appreciative of his kindness (eg driving us to Orlando).

We learned quite a lot just on our own regarding computers :)

I found almost all the technology integration stuff to be obnoxious- when Stejskal came to my Discrete Math class one time and passed out these laptops, it was a real waste of a day. And our poor teachers who had to stay so very late to put their grades into this not-so-easy-to-use FoxPro based system...

Ah, I'm just rambling now.

Point being I think you could totally make a difference teaching at any level :)