tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post2858740443456783982..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Teaching Challenge!Bardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-29830889304192085312013-02-24T16:12:57.857-08:002013-02-24T16:12:57.857-08:00Oh, wow, Historiann, that's a difficult one. ...Oh, wow, Historiann, that's a difficult one. Pictures are so much more intense than readings, I think, and moving images perhaps even more so. It's great that you were able to reorient your lecture as necessary. Mine wasn't nearly that difficult.Bardiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-38633347211905508482013-02-24T12:27:12.018-08:002013-02-24T12:27:12.018-08:00I've had students bring children to class, and...I've had students bring children to class, and they've always been very good. The only time I thought I needed to reorient my teaching FAST was when an African American man brought his 9 or 10-y.o. African American niece to class on the day I had planned to talk about the visual representation of enslaved bodies in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. <br /><br />I thought it was especially important not to give that exact lecture without a great deal of editing of the images I show the students because I teach at an overwhelmingly white institution. The last thing I wanted to do was to expose her to upsetting and demeaning images of black people, because I hadn't prepared her for them the way I had prepared my undergrad students.Historiannhttp://historiann.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-7461157832039622122013-02-22T13:19:32.630-08:002013-02-22T13:19:32.630-08:00I learned a lot from sitting in my mom's class...I learned a lot from sitting in my mom's classes while she taught teachers how to teach back when I was age 6 or so. Sometimes professors have childcare emergencies too!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com