PrescriptiveTeaching

Prescriptive Teaching: Yuk, this is another one of those unrealisted skills you have to master. It involves helping a class with particular questions they missed on a quiz or exam. That sounds easy enough but you have to address several key issues in every presentation. You need an Introduction, a Body and a Summary. Since you are only answering one questions these pieces occur only seconds apart. Each piece has specific requirements and at least one must be all threee parts. In other words you repeat the same thing 3 times in about 3 minutes. It difficult to do because its so boring and foreign. Doing this in a 1 hour lecture might be one thing but doing this in a few minutes makes it seem really strange. I had a really bad attitude about it anyway so I don't think I did very well when we did a group project. The homework for the night was preparing one of these presentations along with a couple of briefings for students doing various sections of various classes. Again these are not fluid since you aren't briefing in a real world senerio.

We went to the Mariposa again for dinner and I had my usual pretzel. One of the owners came up and asked my name because everyone is calling me the pretzel man since that's all I ever order.

Joe, Mario and I talked and argued politics and diving practices for several hours it seems. Joe is English and Mario is from Norway. Both are in their early 20's so we make a funny group but we have lots of fun.