For a few years now, I've been telling the kiddos, you're lucky that you get to sit all day while I stand. That all reversed itself today when I found myself seated for about 6 hours. I'm not going to tell you it was fun, but it was no where as miserable as it could have been had I not been so fully 'engaged' by the team teaching of two wonderfully prepared professors. The course syllabus and the organization of content and materials (all provided) was top notch. I understand, however, that this is what can be expected at UCR.
The six hour class with one 15 minute break is populated by a group of six, and one of those is the Profe. There are two professors that switch classes at half time. The first, a gentleman, teaches advanced grammar and he is promply follow by a lovely woman who introduced herself telling us that the gentleman had to do the dirty work and she got to have all the fun, i. e., the intense conversation.
Now in my head I expected classroom instruction to be somewhat 50's style. (I don't know where I came up wih that.) Au contraire, both of them used current educational theory and strategies in presenting the class. Any secondary principal would have been thrilled on a walk-through those classes!
What about homework? I dreaded the thought. I am intrinsically lazy and normally fight back at that by over-involvement in whatever. I really was worse than a 7th grader holding my breath, hoping they might forget. They didn't. The prep for the conversation class is to become an expert on the Honduras 'incident' and to interview our host familes for their opionions. I can handle that. I enjoyed it. I only wish I had a solution for it all. As is usual with politics, there are many opinions and the Latinos are right in their millieu with that topic.
I'm going to get some pics up shortly. This weekend I am off on 2 full day excursions that I am looking forward to. With all my years in the travel business critiqing tours and writing copy, I should be able to produce something informative for you.
Saludos de San Jose
The six hour class with one 15 minute break is populated by a group of six, and one of those is the Profe. There are two professors that switch classes at half time. The first, a gentleman, teaches advanced grammar and he is promply follow by a lovely woman who introduced herself telling us that the gentleman had to do the dirty work and she got to have all the fun, i. e., the intense conversation.
Now in my head I expected classroom instruction to be somewhat 50's style. (I don't know where I came up wih that.) Au contraire, both of them used current educational theory and strategies in presenting the class. Any secondary principal would have been thrilled on a walk-through those classes!
What about homework? I dreaded the thought. I am intrinsically lazy and normally fight back at that by over-involvement in whatever. I really was worse than a 7th grader holding my breath, hoping they might forget. They didn't. The prep for the conversation class is to become an expert on the Honduras 'incident' and to interview our host familes for their opionions. I can handle that. I enjoyed it. I only wish I had a solution for it all. As is usual with politics, there are many opinions and the Latinos are right in their millieu with that topic.
I'm going to get some pics up shortly. This weekend I am off on 2 full day excursions that I am looking forward to. With all my years in the travel business critiqing tours and writing copy, I should be able to produce something informative for you.
Saludos de San Jose
Las cosas han cambiado mucho. Yo creo que en todas partes del mundo el sistema educativo esta muy actualizado. En cuanto a la tarea, ya yo tengo mucho trabajo que hacer para el Lunes. Mis clases son interesantes y todas son de literatura.
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