I waited until I had an "official" class--not just going over the syllabus--to write about my teaching experience, and now I wish I hadn't.
Today was rough. People were actually answering my questions fairly well, but I was not following my outline. Translation: I think I sounded like a rambling idiot.
However, this is not without its benefits. Rough as today was, it has taught me a lesson: Follow my guideline. Focus on one, maybe two, key ideas, and go for them. Be more specific about what I want from my students with their homework. And forget their bored, bored faces.
This is what it is all about, right? Learning from my mistakes, seeing what works, what doesn't, etc.
At the end of it, I am alive, hurting, but alive. And I have Dr. Pepper, 32 ounces of sweet nectar to take my hurt away.
Me...Kinda
Congratulations!
You've found me. You don't win anything besides the joy of discovering the "official" blog of Christopher William Smith, would-be teacher, wanna-be artist, and purveyor of passable doodles and interesting stories.
My fiction has appeared in Inhale/Exhale, Pindeldyboz, MicroHorror, Blink|Ink, and forthcoming in Pear Noir! #3. I'm also shopping the "final draft" of my novel, Jumping Off Bridges, working on a new novel tentatively titled A Startling Lack of Color, and creating a bi-weekly webcomic, Gibberish.
In the meantime, feel free to peruse these seldom used highways of my brain, and once you're blown away by my fantastical mind and decide you'd like to publish one of my stories or put together a collection of Gibberish, drop me a line. Thanks for stopping by, I look forward to hearing from you.
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