How are you spending this Friday? Do you have any plans for the weekend?
520 posts and 196 image replies omitted.Last Friday I gave my first lecture as an asocial, socially crippled, and chronically online undergraduate. Given this lack of people skills, and given the fact that I assume the worst when I am standing in front of a class of twenty or thirty fifteen-year-olds, since I am a person who prefers my own company to other people’s, everything went surprisingly well; the students listened to the lesson and worked on the assignment I had prepared. There was plenty of interaction on their part, and I ended up learning a great deal from those kids. Such student interaction—it really helps the whole flow of the classroom, and it reassures me when the kids do not shut down, but, on the contrary, speak up with whatever comes to mind as soon as I ask the right questions.
Well, of course not everything went flawlessly, because I often either stumbled over my explanations or the students looked away, then I would lose my train of thought, but this inconvenience faded from class to class. My competence in the subject also helped me a lot on finding the nerve to stand in front of the class, particularly in a third-world country where public education is constantly undermined by the private sector and teachers are less and less respected.
>>728729this was heartwarming to read, im really glad everything went down fine
I went to college to become a lawyer.