tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post114383367846475641..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Seminar problemBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1143985747027513252006-04-02T06:49:00.000-07:002006-04-02T06:49:00.000-07:00Lisa, Should I run out and find a copy of *Teachi...Lisa, Should I run out and find a copy of *Teaching with your Mouth Shut*? I've never heard of it, but I could use the help.<BR/><BR/>G Bitch, Well, this one student sure isn't afraid of saying things wrong... I almost wish she were. Fear drove me to a LOT of extra reading when I was a grad student, but then, so did curiousity, ego, etc.<BR/><BR/>Still, enough of my students really are willing to engage with work that most of the time it works out reasonably well.Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1143985032190173532006-04-02T06:37:00.000-07:002006-04-02T06:37:00.000-07:00I feel if I keep my mouth TOO shut, no one learns ...I feel if I keep my mouth TOO shut, no one learns but if my mouth is full-throttle open the whole period, no one learns. Maybe it's me or my students but it seems my students make connections all the time between the spheres of their personal lives and media but that ability is turned off the minute they walk in the door, as if the one place to use your intellectual abilities is not the classroom. (Or when you are doing coursework at all.) Is it that they are afraid of saying something 'wrong'? Or, as I found with many students this session, that they just don't bother to fucking read and/or engage with the course? Can you tell it is almost finals? Grrrrr.....<BR/><BR/>Most of them have this attitude and dismay that as an instructor I would dare ask them to do anything inside or outside of class. Double grrrrrr.....G Bitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02627688780324880935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1143897395561038102006-04-01T05:16:00.000-08:002006-04-01T05:16:00.000-08:00I struggle with this, too. I teach a seminar full ...I struggle with this, too. I teach a seminar full of seniors, and I assigned them the task of selecting some of our books and leading our discussion, and it's been pretty dismall, too. I read "Teaching with your mouth shut," but I am having a tough time stepping aside, because I have to develop some continuity between classes and throughout the course of the semester.Chaserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124246378936489539noreply@blogger.com