Owed Thanks - Part 2
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joshwritingThere were several teachers along the way whose help was notable...
Mr. Ordway, my 7th grade math teacher was teh first teacher with whom I had success. Just success.
My 9th grade math teacher got herself fired by telling me to get out of that shcool. She was right - and she got out first!
My senior year psychology teacher, Chuck Kalinski, has provided for me a model of caring for students beyond the classroom - and for bringing subjects to life - or at least avoiding putting the students TOTALLY to sleep...
Hmm... I think I will see if I can drag him to BIQ Boston this cycle!
John Day let me act. On stage. In front of people. It was wonderful!
Dr. Andrews let 19 year old Josh into his graduate course on educational change, along with a couple superintendents and principals, the head of the Division for Youth Services, and other adults... And taught a great course, whose material I still apply! And he lives not too far away either...
Don Oliver taught by Socratic Method - but had 90 students. It didn;t work for the overwhelming majority of students. It did for me. Education and Community is a book he wrote that I went to find after the course. It and he propelled my views of what an educational institution should and could be.
He taught me about burn out - and why I needed to avoid it.
My mom. She taught me to write. It has stood both of us in VERY good stead. She did not teach me formally - and frequently, it happened in passing, not directly - I suspect that that was best...
Hmm... I think that is about it. There were many other lessons that my teachers over the decades have taught me - "socio-cognitive foundations of behavior," "if you can't wash your hands well enough, then we will humiliate you," "it doesn't matter oif you knwo the material - it matters if you do it as I have TOLD you to do it."
I am not sure that I owe these folks even the thanks of teaching me what I did NOT want to be. I would like to think THOSE are things I would have learned on my own...
Mr. Ordway, my 7th grade math teacher was teh first teacher with whom I had success. Just success.
My 9th grade math teacher got herself fired by telling me to get out of that shcool. She was right - and she got out first!
My senior year psychology teacher, Chuck Kalinski, has provided for me a model of caring for students beyond the classroom - and for bringing subjects to life - or at least avoiding putting the students TOTALLY to sleep...
Hmm... I think I will see if I can drag him to BIQ Boston this cycle!
John Day let me act. On stage. In front of people. It was wonderful!
Dr. Andrews let 19 year old Josh into his graduate course on educational change, along with a couple superintendents and principals, the head of the Division for Youth Services, and other adults... And taught a great course, whose material I still apply! And he lives not too far away either...
Don Oliver taught by Socratic Method - but had 90 students. It didn;t work for the overwhelming majority of students. It did for me. Education and Community is a book he wrote that I went to find after the course. It and he propelled my views of what an educational institution should and could be.
He taught me about burn out - and why I needed to avoid it.
My mom. She taught me to write. It has stood both of us in VERY good stead. She did not teach me formally - and frequently, it happened in passing, not directly - I suspect that that was best...
Hmm... I think that is about it. There were many other lessons that my teachers over the decades have taught me - "socio-cognitive foundations of behavior," "if you can't wash your hands well enough, then we will humiliate you," "it doesn't matter oif you knwo the material - it matters if you do it as I have TOLD you to do it."
I am not sure that I owe these folks even the thanks of teaching me what I did NOT want to be. I would like to think THOSE are things I would have learned on my own...
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On informal teaching...
Date: 2003-11-28 05:40 am (UTC)Secondly, in response to this line of yours:
"My mom. She taught me to write. It has stood both of us in VERY good stead. She did not teach me formally - and frequently, it happened in passing, not directly - I suspect that that was best..."
I feel the urge to quote these lines, which I know you have seen:
"You've taught me so many things, through the years [...] Things that I never realised I was learning, until I look back, and remember, Or find myself using the knowledge."