For the last class I had my first run in with functioning as
the soul teacher present in the class. This was rather unforeseen, or at least
not expected to have occurred as early on as it did. Despite my relative inexperience
with directly teaching a group of individuals it seemed like what I was
explaining and showing was making it threw just fine. Few had questions and
most were related to things outside of what I was teaching such as when the
next blog entry was due.
But to my dismay, I was unable to get them to talk much when
it was time to discuss everyone’s responses to the PressPausePlay video we had
watched for the journal entries. I had
never realized how tricky it must be to get a bunch of students to actually share
their thoughts till now as it took a lot of prodding to just get a few words
out of any of them. This is in-lew of the fact that they were all happily chatting
away about their entry’s and the video just seconds before I asked them to
share their opinions with the class.
My best guess at why they suddenly clammed up a pawn being
handed the spot light is related to this being our second meeting ever, and
that they will open up with time. However I also suspect that the fact that I’m
a student, and not an actual professor, might have contributed negatively to
the situation.
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