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November 21, 2004
Following one's own syllabus
Tyra speaks blithely of my inability to stick to my own syllabus. How right she is, and how very much I enjoy that inability! Teaching makes sense when I work out a detailed plan, but not when I follow it. If the students are following the detailed plan, it allows me and the class as a group to range afield from it, where our interests take us. Yum.
I do have to face the fact, however, that having committed myself to a big grad class next semester means I will have to follow my own syllabus. Otherwise, I'll be a basket case by the end of the semester. Gulp. That will be a new experience!
Posted by senioritis at November 21, 2004 02:28 PM
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HMMMM, well, hello Senioritis...I'm trying out this nifty little blog thing here and found the multitude of entries entertaining to say the least. I'm thinking of a blogname for future posts... Hope you feel better very soon and I'll be "talking" with you and the rest of 607 on Tuesday at 10. Heehee, I just thought how cute it will be when we discuss when to break!
Posted by: Vanessa Watts at November 21, 2004 03:16 PM
Since I'm new to this classroom teaching thing, I'm finding that although I plan a calendar with my syllabus. I haven't followed the calendar much at all. I must say that I have become very flexible when it comes to listening and observing the needs of my students. A calendar cannot predict student knowledge or enthusiasm about a particular lesson; it only assumes. Right?
Oh, yea! I can blog from home.
Posted by: aljeffers at November 21, 2004 06:23 PM
Yes, and if you take Collin's class next semester, you'll have your own blog!
Posted by: senioritis at November 21, 2004 06:34 PM
"inability" is a word i only use w/you with an accompanying sound in my head of residual applause.
i hope that somebody out there feels the same way about my "inability" to toe lines, shut my mouth, and keep my french theorists (who i don't believe in anyway--what's the reverse of clapping, and are they like tinkerbell enough to go away if i do it?) straight.
Posted by: tyra at November 22, 2004 06:28 PM
oh, & that "straight" thing isn't in any way meant to be a dig or implied wish-he'd-have-changed for foucault. :-P
Posted by: tyra at November 22, 2004 06:29 PM
Watch out, or I'll assign you a bunch more Bourdieu next semester.
Posted by: senioritis at November 22, 2004 09:44 PM