I Teach
This blog is a place for me to debrief myself after my classes. It will serve both as a place for venting and as an archive for what worked and didn't work for me. I welcome outsider comments about teaching techniques or anything else.Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Pride (not lions)
Today my friend/colleague made a presentation in my class. It went really, really well. He was not nearly as pretentious as he can be (his admission), and the class responded well to him. But my favorite thing was that when he would ask them questions (How could you fix inner-city schools?) they answered using concepts that I had taught them (Don't have funding rely so much on property tax). It made me really proud of them and of myself. Honestly, it probably made me too proud and really only drives home the point that I was making in the last post that wayyyyy to much of my self worth is tied up in this venture. Again, I would have been crushed and (semi) publicly humiliated if they couldn't have answered basic questions. But alas I was spared...again. But it will happen. I know it will. The only questions are How long can I cheat fate, and Will I be able to deal with it when it does?
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