Our Habits as Students Become Our Habits as Teachers
Thursday, 9 September 2010
The title of this post is certainly not strictly true for all teachers, but it sounds so much better in the first person plural than in the first person singular.
At any rate, I once again left work for the last minute and am now setting about revising my first day of school presentation at 9:24 pm the night before the first day of classes. It is roughly 80% complete, but that final 20% is the oh so crucial difference between “I said everything I wanted to say and made it worth my students time” and “Not only did I forget multiple key points, but I inspired half the class to attempt blinding themselves after witnessing multiple atrocities of graphic design.”
As I was sitting here typing this I suddenly remembered that I haven’t made seating charts for two classes. Perhaps it’s time to switch windows and get this business out of the way.
Oh well, it’s not like I was going to sleep well tonight anyway.