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Coda

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...so this afternoon, I found out that I got enough Financial Aid money to pay for a full semester...I have to pay nothing out of pocket...free money...so I signed up for my 5 classes, and am on the way to finish my degree...but now I hafta get books, and some sort of bag to carry them in...and there are all these young kids that will be going there too...I feel like Rodney Dangerfield...
 
12Pack said:
Coda+politics=fail
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...I just want to teach it like it is...I always enjoyed learning about history, but the stuff I learned in school was mild compared to what I was learning about on my own...then I got to high school, and had a history teacher, who told it like it was...taught interesting history...he got people that hated history to enjoy it, by speaking the truth, and using his own knowledge to teach...he did use some "suggested history" guidelines, he taught what he though was important...thats what I want to do...
 
I was 42 when I started college, 46 when I got my bachelors and was 52 when I got my Masters. Good luck and enjoy!
 
Coda said:
...I just want to teach it like it is...I always enjoyed learning about history, but the stuff I learned in school was mild compared to what I was learning about on my own...then I got to high school, and had a history teacher, who told it like it was...taught interesting history...he got people that hated history to enjoy it, by speaking the truth, and using his own knowledge to teach...he did use some "suggested history" guidelines, he taught what he though was important...thats what I want to do...
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Sorry- I thought you were implying that when you were handed the course material to teach you would toss the material out and teach what you wanted.

But yeah- I had a physics teacher in high school that really got me interested in physics because of how he taught it. The very first day if class he wrote in the board- "study pendulums" and refused talk. Thought he was crazy- next day he asked everyone to come up with questions about pendulums and listed them as either good questions or bad questions. He then asked us what was commen about the good questions and the good questions were all things you could somehow measure- hence the bases of physics. The class was cool.
 
Coda said:
...my goal is to eventually be able to teach college...I want to teach from my own curriculum, not what some school board things I should teach...
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Coda said:
...I just want to teach it like it is...I always enjoyed learning about history, but the stuff I learned in school was mild compared to what I was learning about on my own...then I got to high school, and had a history teacher, who told it like it was...taught interesting history...he got people that hated history to enjoy it, by speaking the truth, and using his own knowledge to teach...he did use some "suggested history" guidelines, he taught what he though was important...thats what I want to do...
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Prepare yourself for more disillusionment.
 
Coda said:
...my goal is to eventually be able to teach college...I want to teach from my own curriculum, not what some school board things I should teach...
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Masters minimum. PHD maybe necessary.

Coda said:
...I just want to teach it like it is...I always enjoyed learning about history, but the stuff I learned in school was mild compared to what I was learning about on my own...then I got to high school, and had a history teacher, who told it like it was...taught interesting history...he got people that hated history to enjoy it, by speaking the truth, and using his own knowledge to teach...he did use some "suggested history" guidelines, he taught what he though was important...thats what I want to do...
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That is IMO is truly the right way for any topic. Unfortunately finding those types of teachers a needle in the haystack.
 
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