Thursday, January 27, 2005
research as a time lapsed reward system
I just got my teaching assignments for the next few semesters; I'm moving irrevocably into the realm of the general instructor. I'm so excited and scared. I don't want to do the stupid things my teachers did, but I know I will.
There is such a difference between the long drawn out measured reward from research compared to the immediate rush of seeing a classroom full of students grasp a concept. I feel so full-bones passionate about these topics, I want them to experience even just a glimpse of that. I want them to wonder at the combinations of some silly statistic to the most ephemeral behavioral process and see how solid the outcome is. I want to teach them to think.
If nothing else, I want them to think.
There is such a difference between the long drawn out measured reward from research compared to the immediate rush of seeing a classroom full of students grasp a concept. I feel so full-bones passionate about these topics, I want them to experience even just a glimpse of that. I want them to wonder at the combinations of some silly statistic to the most ephemeral behavioral process and see how solid the outcome is. I want to teach them to think.
If nothing else, I want them to think.
# posted by vanessa from salt lake @ 11:30 AM 
