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flashback to poor teaching
Apr. 13th, 2012 11:59 pmRecently I've been thinking a lot about teaching.
In 1999 or so, I was in high school Spanish class, and we were talking about the Spanish Civil War. Somehow or another the teacher managed to make it seem simultaneously boring, complicated, and morally ambiguous. This being a war in which a (basically) Fascist movement overthrew a republic, Hitler did air strikes against innocent civilians in the Basque Country, and Anarchists, Communists, and George Orwell fought the Fascists, unsuccessfully. And then there was a dictatorship until the 1970s.
Truly a monumental achievement, in the realm of teaching poorly. I'll be OK in the Fall if I can just channel that experience, and do the opposite.
Oh, and! I'm up to 24 students enrolled in my class :) Had to increase the enrollment cap, yessss.
In 1999 or so, I was in high school Spanish class, and we were talking about the Spanish Civil War. Somehow or another the teacher managed to make it seem simultaneously boring, complicated, and morally ambiguous. This being a war in which a (basically) Fascist movement overthrew a republic, Hitler did air strikes against innocent civilians in the Basque Country, and Anarchists, Communists, and George Orwell fought the Fascists, unsuccessfully. And then there was a dictatorship until the 1970s.
Truly a monumental achievement, in the realm of teaching poorly. I'll be OK in the Fall if I can just channel that experience, and do the opposite.
Oh, and! I'm up to 24 students enrolled in my class :) Had to increase the enrollment cap, yessss.
