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.
Well that's it for this blog folks. The semester is over, all the students have been dealt with for the last time (I hope), and it's time to wrap up this little experiment, print out all the posts and read them from front to back for the first time. Thanks for joining me on this little jaunt, you have all been most helpful. I told a friend the other day that I know I'll never prep for another class like I did for this one, so in some ways the students got the very best of me this semester, but I also know that I'll never be as insecure as I was for this class, so my future classes won't have to deal with all that anxiety that I'm certain my students percieved if in no other way than in my lack of ability to connect with them beyond the confines of the classroom.
It's been a great experience that I can honestly say would not have been the same without this blog and the feedback ya'll provided. Thanks for making me a better teacher.
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