Before I got thrown in the deep end last winter quarter, I did not know what to expect as far as teaching any kind of academic class. The confident, even arrogant, side of me thought it couldn’t be that hard; the old adage of “Those who can’t work, teach” bouncing around with its comforting dismissiveness. […]
Expectation
Blog 1: Anxiety and Expectation
Anxiety and Expectation Before I started, I was having a lot of trouble creating a vision of my classroom. My past teaching experiences—substitute teaching in charter schools in Chicago, teaching ESL in Santiago—were unpleasant, restrictive, stifling. And yet, I’ve carried this idea of myself as a teacher, as wanting to teach for so long. […]