Thursday, April 13, 2017

you gotta know to teach

I'm not the kind of person who uses rigorous or piggyback or pushback.  In fact, I have a hard time putting method, theory, and academic language to what I'm doing.  Maybe there was a time I could do it, but I'm terrible at it now - and I've kind of lost my care for such things.

When someone else says something is responsive, accurate and rigorous - I think that sounds really, really great.  It sounds important.  And educationally.

I've volunteered to teach a method that I use in my class - a method I believe in and would like the whole school to copy.  But, I'm reading up on it - and realizing a know so very little about it.  I have the barebones of the strategy and hardly the heart to go through it all.

In fact, I volunteered to teach two things.  And I'm realizing I'm not as saavy as I had hoped on either topics - just enthusiasm and some haphazard application strategies.

Gulp.

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