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This month´s BtS class, Geology, is ready to start here.
It´s going to be about… uh, no, if you can´t guess from the title, I´m not going to spoil it for you.
Chaos wrote:This month´s BtS class, Geology, is ready to start here.It´s going to be about… uh, no, if you can´t guess from the title, I´m not going to spoil it for you.
So we have to figure it out? Let me see… it’s about finding out who your ancestors were, right?
(Sorry; as a genealogist, I’ve been called a geologist, a gemologist – and a colleague was once called a gynecologist… so I couldn’t resist.)
I have been incredibly busy at work these last couple of weeks, and will continue to be busy for another few weeks, so I did not have the time to find a teacher for BtS´s July class.
For that reason – unless somebody happens to have a finished or nearly finished class up their figurative sleeve – BtS will be on hiatus for July.
I am still looking for a teacher for the September class – and later classes, of course.
I still have the class I did a few years ago on Emergency Preparedness. I could dust that off and see how much tweaking I could manage on it, if you think that would help. Of course, I don’t know if anyone wants to see a class that was up not that long ago. (2009, if the timestamps on my files are accurate.) If you do want me to haul that out for July, please let me know as soon as possible, so I can look it over and tweak it. After all, they’ve been growing mold and accumulating dust (or at least bitrot
) on my hard drive all that time.I don’t know if I could be helpful, but I was an urban teacher (8th grade U.S. History) before I became a SAH Mom. I’d be happy to do a class on teaching basics and the components of teaching in big-city neighborhoods (and teaching about real world issues without common stereotyping, etc). I also have a master’s degree in education that specializes in segregation, integration and resegregation. (In the American context)
I don’t know if that would be particularly interesting or relevant to anyone… If it is, I’d love to contribute!
I don´t about anyone else – or about whether it could fill a whole class – but I´d be interested in knowing what it actually means to be a teacher. As a student, I´ve only ever seen the “end product” – but what about the loads and loads of work that go into preparing (and postparing, if that´s even a word) the actual classes?`I´m also curious what you´re actually taught in university in order to be qualified as a teacher – I mean, aside from the actual subjects you´re going to be teaching.
I’d be happy to write up some stuff…just let me know the parameters. I’m happy to go into detail about teacher training and testing, including the formal university teaching and the less-formal training programs that some teachers do. I’m not affiliated with Teach for America, but I have friends who are, and I’m sure they’d tell me some things for the course.
August or October would be my better months. I’m moving in July and my eldest starts preschool in September, so I think I’d be a mess. November is NaNo, of course.
If you are interested, I’m happy to help. If you just have individual questions that you think I can answer, I’m happy to help with that as well.
I would have no problem adjusting the BtS schedules so that the next classes are in August, October and December.
If Wandering Author does the next class, yours would then be in October, if that is all right with you.
I don’t want to step on any toes here. If Chaos sees a reason to shift the schedule to even numbered months, that’s fine with me. I’d go in August, you’d go in October. Or, if that is bad for you, I was assuming I was up in July, which would leave you August. (But you’d be writing the course in July, while you were moving. So the plan Chaos suggested may be best for you.) Either way, I’ll fit things in.
Fantastic. I’ll take October. I’ll look at other courses to figure out format and whatnot. If there are guidelines or anything, please point me to them!
Thanks for the opportunity! I’m looking forward to it!
Allow me to bump this thread…
First, sorry for not thinking of posting this sooner, but there won´t be an October class due to a sudden and inexplicable outbreak of Real Life among the teaching staff. Except the next class to be in December.
Second, Back to School is, as ever, looking for new teachers. Any and all applications welcome.
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