Tag: teaching

Today my teaching was observed by someone other than my students for the first time. It took me a few minutes to feel something like natural while someone sat and took notes. On the whole I think it went well. In other news, one of the more annoying things available for human experience is the…

I’ve now been back to school for a week (with Thursday off!). I miss my old schedule. Particularly I miss the wide open spaces for lunch (at standard lunch times). I also am not a fan of teaching first period three days a week. Fortunately, I’m tough. I will survive odd lunch times and first…

Thursday night I worked all night long to finish up two finals to give my classes Friday morning. I had been working on the tests all week, but had had difficulty making progress because of students stopping by for various things and other assorted interruptions. It was not at all my plan to spend the…

Today was the last day of classes for this term. I’m sure there is something I should be able to say about it, but at the moment the ol’ brain is a little on the well-toasted side of things. Monday and Tuesday nights of this last week I was at school until after 9:00 at…

Some of my students entered a competition among several English Program schools. I was their adviser. It was hard for me to limit myself to the role of adviser. I often wanted to promote myself to project leader/dictator. Holding myself back to the adviser role I believe allowed my students to learn more. It did…