Comments on: Master and Instuctor http://midnightferret.com/2007/08/18/master-and-instuctor/ .: Don't go in the water! :. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:18:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: NtK http://midnightferret.com/2007/08/18/master-and-instuctor/comment-page-1/#comment-2839 NtK Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:14:29 +0000 http://midnightferret.com/2007/08/18/master-and-instuctor/#comment-2839 The problem is that you likely won't get any training in actually teaching. I've heard repeatedly from teachers I admire that they often learn more (while teaching) than their students do. So, apply that and you'll be waaay ahead of the curve in no time. :) --NtK The problem is that you likely won’t get any training in actually teaching. I’ve heard repeatedly from teachers I admire that they often learn more (while teaching) than their students do.

So, apply that and you’ll be waaay ahead of the curve in no time. :)

–NtK

]]> By: midnightferret http://midnightferret.com/2007/08/18/master-and-instuctor/comment-page-1/#comment-2828 midnightferret Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:08:29 +0000 http://midnightferret.com/2007/08/18/master-and-instuctor/#comment-2828 Nice to see you around, Newton. Good advice from both of you. I was a pretty good tutor. I will probably be a pretty good teacher. I suppose I was simply hoping that I would turn into someone who "has it all figured out" sort of magically when I became a teacher. I'm not really surprised that this is not the case. Nice to see you around, Newton.

Good advice from both of you. I was a pretty good tutor. I will probably be a pretty good teacher.

I suppose I was simply hoping that I would turn into someone who “has it all figured out” sort of magically when I became a teacher. I’m not really surprised that this is not the case.

]]> By: NtK http://midnightferret.com/2007/08/18/master-and-instuctor/comment-page-1/#comment-2827 NtK Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:42:03 +0000 http://midnightferret.com/2007/08/18/master-and-instuctor/#comment-2827 When I taught CS for liberal arts folks, I just told them that I had a liberal arts degree and they couldn't convince me they couldn't learn basic programming. Half the class walked out of the room and dropped. I could work with the folks who stayed. Demand (nicely) that they succeed. Folks will (mostly) (eventually) appreciate that implicit faith. And one more piece of advice from my prof emeritus father (40+ years teaching chemistry): <blockquote>"if my students learn anything from me, anything at all, I feel like I've succeeded."</blockquote> The last is probably the philosphy he germinated in the late 60s (and that era's concomitant problems :), but even so I find it useful when I teach now. --NtK When I taught CS for liberal arts folks, I just told them that I had a liberal arts degree and they couldn’t convince me they couldn’t learn basic programming.

Half the class walked out of the room and dropped.

I could work with the folks who stayed.

Demand (nicely) that they succeed. Folks will (mostly) (eventually) appreciate that implicit faith.

And one more piece of advice from my prof emeritus father (40+ years teaching chemistry):

“if my students learn anything from me, anything at all, I feel like I’ve succeeded.”

The last is probably the philosphy he germinated in the late 60s (and that era’s concomitant problems :) , but even so I find it useful when I teach now.

–NtK

]]> By: Brien http://midnightferret.com/2007/08/18/master-and-instuctor/comment-page-1/#comment-2819 Brien Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:56:05 +0000 http://midnightferret.com/2007/08/18/master-and-instuctor/#comment-2819 If you can get a Freshman English class to coherently express an idea, opinion or argument, then you will have more than achieved your goal. I've read stuff written by college graduates that make my hair (all three of them) stand on end. I feel your pain - when I was working on my Masters in History (never finished), we had to come up with a syllabus for all of European History in a year. Holy crapola, Batman! Mine basically pretended the Victorian age never happened. Yep, all the sudden we had these industrial machines around and no explanation - I blamed it on aliens. Fortunately, no Freshmen were harmed in the making of my syllabus. If you can get a Freshman English class to coherently express an idea, opinion or argument, then you will have more than achieved your goal. I’ve read stuff written by college graduates that make my hair (all three of them) stand on end. I feel your pain – when I was working on my Masters in History (never finished), we had to come up with a syllabus for all of European History in a year. Holy crapola, Batman! Mine basically pretended the Victorian age never happened. Yep, all the sudden we had these industrial machines around and no explanation – I blamed it on aliens. Fortunately, no Freshmen were harmed in the making of my syllabus.

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