It sounds like you have a great teaching approach, Penny. Though it's very
different, it reminds me of the way my favorite history professor, Mr.
Butler, gave tests. (Mind you, he didn't start being my favorite until the
day AFTER I was done with his classes!) On test day, we were to come in,
sit down, and spend the whole time writing everything we knew about what
he'd taught since the last test. That's it--just tell him what you know
about the subject, and if you know something he didn't teach, all the
better. If you left before time was up, you were an absolute idiot.
Annoying at the time; brilliant in hindsight.
This is the professor who came up with the idea of "Tales from the Crypt,"
where each student in the class chose or was assigned a headstone from the
local, reportedly haunted historic cemetary; they researched that person's
life, then dressed up as them, stood by their headstone, and gave a 5-10
minute 1st person presentation to a regional audience on Halloween. (I was
Nurse Canant, the mysterious CW nurse buried in the confederate soldier
section. There was much fake blood and ham acting by a friend in my
presentation.) Really, you had to either love this guy, or hate him! (For
those of you who were teenagers in the 90s, several members of Blind Melon
were dedicated Butler Boys, which gave me a distaste for their music until I
suddenly discovered that _I_ was a Butler Boy as well.)
-E "Nostalgia" House
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