Re: fun and effective

[ENGL-DMC@nich-nsunet.nich.edu]

On  Fri, 2 Feb 1996 Jacqueline writes:
(snip)
>For those of you who teach in classrooms: how many of you have had
>students who clearly believe that your responsibility as their
>teacher is to make them feel entertained enough to learn? 
(snip)
>So, I'm wondering if the expectation of being entertained is very
>widespread, or if it can be attributed to the fact that most of my
>students were fairly pampered kids, or what. Anyone had similar -- 
>or
>markedly different -- experiences? 

I've always been a performer. Not only jokes but standing on desks, 
wisecracks, word games, tap-dancing, performing sections from plays 
studied by the class, interpretative readings, even wearing costumes 
(on Shakespeare Day [sponsored by our Sigma Tau Delta frat.] I came 
to school as a Renaissance scholar; on Chaucer Day as the Prioress, 
Lady Eglantine [it was easy to find a habit; south Louisiana is ripe 
with nuns]).

but I've done theatre in the past. Oh, and sometimes I sing. But 
I've learned never to keep still. I make just having to follow me 
around the classroom entertainment.


deany

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