Spring HSSP

[joshwriting]

Okay, campers...

What should Josh teach his students this Spring at the MIT High School Studies Program?

(for those of you unfamiliar, it is a 10 week enrichment program for 7th-12th graders run at MIT from late Feb (reg.) to early May - see http://esp.mit.edu for more info)

I plan on teaching in the afternoon and late afternoon periods, and not in the mornings.

Beyond that, I will withhold guidance until I get some feedback!

Edit to settle debate.

Comments

[erowen.livejournal.com]

You sound like you've done this program before, so - do you enjoy it? It might be a good experience, y'know. Meet new people or whatever. But it depends on how busy you are - I'll ask you on AIM. ^_^

[dpolicar]

Josh is asking this question?
Josh is asking this question?

All together now:
"Students!"

[ratesjul.livejournal.com]

Uh, that would be the answer to the question of "WHO should Josh teach..." yes?

[qualmish.livejournal.com]

Whom Josh should teach.

Perhaps a course lauding the Saturday sleep-in.

Some things in which I'd be interested, were I to attend:
-Discussing the relationship between learning style and MBTI
-Tracing the evolution of language, and vestigial similiarities among modern ones from different groups
-By the numbers: A completely statistical approach to schools, analyzing any kinds of enrollment, testing, or demographic statistics (in any school or college)
-Who is {Maslow; Jung; Rogers; Terman; Wechsler; James}? What did he think? WHY?
-Current research and trends in GATE
-What's in NCLB? What specific stipulations make it bad?
-What provisions are in IDEA and ADA?
-Are there any documented neurological differences among personality types?
-How does an optical mouse work?

Few of those are relevant to the general public or feasible, but might spark other ideas.

[ratesjul.livejournal.com]

My apologies. Who vs Whom is a lesson he hasn't yet drummed into my head sufficiantly enough to ensure I get it right.

[dpolicar]

Hm. My lexical intuition says tells me that "Who should Josh teach..." demands a specific answer rather than a category answer... an answer like "ratesjul" rather than an answer like "students".

But I can't prove it. And in any case, I'll grant you that in making students a "what" I do something of a disservice to the individual students being referenced... supposing there are any such individual referents, which I'm not sure of one way or the other.

But mostly, it was a reference back to a conversation I (and, I imagine, a lot of other people) had with Josh in my college days, wherein when asked what he taught Josh reliably replied "students".