These past few weeks have been eye-opening and draining. I feel that one of the hardest challenges I have faced has been the time I spend prepping for my class. It is these moments that send me into a frantic spiral as I worry about whether the students will understand my directions and explanations. I worry about whether they will understand the importance of this assignment and whether or not the assignment is actually important. I worry about whether they will laugh at the jokes and sarcastic remarks I try to smuggle into the dense content and discussions. \u00a0I keep hoping this feeling will go away–but we are several weeks into the semester and I still feel the late night dread and the early morning panic of lesson planning.<\/p>\n
The classroom is a totally different story. I walk in and my worry goes away. I feel comfortable and in control when leading discussions, facilitating activities, and delivering brief lectures. It is the in-between time, this purgatory in my week between being a teacher and being a student, that gives me a conniption. My struggle is codified in my blog title.<\/p>\n
“Stiffening and Suppression: Hairspray and the Savage” is indicative of my attempts to bring balance to my life as an educator and a student. When creating a student example paper heading, I used the website\u00a0http:\/\/www.besttitlegenerator.com\/ to generate a random title for my paper because I was tired of coming up with ideas and worrying about whether I would get a laugh out of my students. In the end, I had one student chuckle at what I thought was a hilarious example of a title for an academic article. I had been so excited about my carefully crafted example heading\/title, but it took me all of 30 seconds to present it. It took them all of one rough draft to format it incorrectly–but that’s another rant for another day.<\/p>\n
I’m not upset at the formatting errors, but rather at the amount of time it seems to take me to construct these educational artifacts. I want to become more competent and equipped to structure class activities and examples in a way that leans on my strengths in the classroom and makes the planning time a less stressful experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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