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What did I accomplish?
Jun. 18th, 2011 01:07 pmIt's true that teaching is mostly thankless drudgery, in the respect that there's no daily "aha" wins, and a lot of the time, your actual accomplishment cannot be measured. It's like weeding the garden every day--if you don't accomplish your task, things still grow, just not as well.
I was at a meeting for the Summer Tech Camp I teach at, this being probably the last one (many reasons), and one of the other teachers noted that a past student of the Robotics course wanted to come back and assist. I welcome this; it's always good to have more help, it's great to relearn old material, and the experience of coming back helps the other students.
This particular student was so inspired by the open-endedness of robotics and the fun of it that he has gone on to more robotics, so the class was a success. More than I had hoped.
As was pointed out, probably by Dave Orphal, teaching the facts is not enough. And teaching enthusiasm is what I want to do.
July 11th, I teach the next session of Robotics.
I was at a meeting for the Summer Tech Camp I teach at, this being probably the last one (many reasons), and one of the other teachers noted that a past student of the Robotics course wanted to come back and assist. I welcome this; it's always good to have more help, it's great to relearn old material, and the experience of coming back helps the other students.
This particular student was so inspired by the open-endedness of robotics and the fun of it that he has gone on to more robotics, so the class was a success. More than I had hoped.
As was pointed out, probably by Dave Orphal, teaching the facts is not enough. And teaching enthusiasm is what I want to do.
July 11th, I teach the next session of Robotics.
