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Teaching the first class ever for some freshmen tonight - ideas? (pg. 3)
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| Lira |
| Thanks, everyone! Class starts in an hour, and I'm off to uni. Will report back with results :D |
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| Spacey Orange |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
The COR is obviously a terrible place to turn to for advice, so I just had to do this: If you had the opportunity to teach the first class ever for university students - and it's a key discipline, no less - what would you do to make an impact?
Go!
Edit: Here's some more info...
- I'm the teacher (yes, I know, what were they thinking?);
- This is the first or second university class this students are having in their life. If it's the second, they had their first class just a couple of hours before mine;
- It's Japanese Linguistics 101;
- Non-serious ideas preferred.
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i would try and hook up with the hottest 18/19 yr old girl in the class. all those lil s would be talkin abt me for the rest of their lives, abt how that one perverted prof ed the hottest girl in their class.
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| Lira |
:stongue:
That's a low budget "Zé Gotinha" (Droppy Joe), it's our mascot for infantile palsy vaccination campaigns! Here he is (with Droppy Mary), in a better picture:
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
DON'T DIE |
Came back unscathed. Here's how it went:
I had a former student pretend she was a substitute professor, and that I had moved to the Amazon because of my wife (she currently lives there). She started teaching, and then at some point she said "Now let me write something on the blackboard... wait, there's no chalk! I'm going to get some, be right back!". Then I started playing Blitzkrieg Bop in my laptop on the back (I was disguised as a student), and yelled "How come there's no chalk?! And just because there's no chalk, we're just going to stop and let it become a barrier to learning?! Screw this!", and I stormed to the blackboard (it was a bit hard because there were some chairs in front of me and I didn't want to kick them in case it hit someone) just saying "No way, that won't happen!", opened my bag, got some chalks out and raised them, threw my bag against the wall, put my laptop on the table and said "We're going to learn no matter what happens! My name is Marcus Lira, and this is Japanese Linguistics 101!".
Then I proceeded to do as some of you guys told, and tell them about the culture/communication problems/how linguistics can ruin your life. They seemed to like it :) |
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| MSZ |
| In b4 affair with student. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by MSZ
In b4 affair with student. |
I want my students to get an A, not the D :D |
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| Jon_Snow |
| I'd chalk up your first class as a success. |
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| Floorfiller |
| I just had my first class last night after several years out of school. No ing talent...stupid science / math department. |
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| Lagrangian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
I just had my first class last night after several years out of school. No ing talent...stupid science / math department. |
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| FuzzQi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
This is the best I've got so far:
Because I still look like a student (people reckon I'm 25), I'm going to sit among them and two minutes into the class, I'm going to ask my unsuspecting "classmates" if they know when the professor will show up. Then I'll start complaining he should be there already, and bond with the students, telling them we should probably do it ourselves and study no matter what anyone tells us. Then I'll get up and say, "You know what!? I'm going to do it, now!" and hand them the syllabus and frequency sheet so they know I'm actually the one in charge of the subject.
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If someone did that on my first day of uni it would have made my day 
Instead we had an inspirational thought provoking lecture from this man
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