Ah yes, speaking of bad teaching . . .
Once, long ago, I joined a class to learn Modern Greek. At the first
session, the teacher listened carefully as each student introduced
themselves to the group. Then she sat back, glared around the room, and
said: "Thank you. Well, now I know which of you are going to fail."
Her opinions came across clearly during lessons, too, as part of her
heavily authoritarian approach.
The lady also had her favourites, and made it quite clear who they were,
which didn't encourage the rest of us. She was so unpleasant to me
after I got high marks in a class competition, beating her particular
pet, that I decided to stop fighting and dropped out.
It has affected my willingness to join other classes, preferring to
teach myself whenever possible. Despite believing myself to be rational
and tough, my feelings are there too and have to be overcome every time.
I'm sure no member of this very well-mannered list would even think of
teaching in this way, but it might be worth considering that your
students might have been damaged by a previous experience.
Linda Walton,
(fluent in Classical and Koine Greek, but still not able to manage 'good
morning' in Modern Greek), in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where
it's a cool, still Autumn twilight.
On 28/10/2011 17:07, Clay Blackwell wrote:
Ah yes....
This reminds me of a "teacher" I had many years ago. I was trying to make tallies, and
asked her how they were done. She looked at me and said, "Well, you just DO it."
Needless to say, I had to find a better teacher.
C
Clay Blackwell
Lynchburg, VA. USA
Joy Beeson<[email protected]> wrote:
On 10/26/11 10:59 AM, Bob Ross wrote:
There are two ladies in town with way more experience
then me so I'm may just suggest the weavers contact them.
You might be the better teacher, because you remember what's
hard and what you did about it. We experienced workers tend
to say things like "All you have to do is to frammis the
wilberstan." [flutters fingers randomly, perfectly-
frammised wilberstan appears] "And then you gorblach . . . "
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Joy Beeson
http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/
http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.shtml#content
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
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