Class room standards
I think I've be come distressingly forward in my classes. After much time of acting like I know what I am doing in other parts of life, it's hard to scale back and treat teachers deferentially. Sure, I respect their experience and knowledge, but that doesn't mean I will sit there passively if they answer a question incompletely or wrong. And if I add something to what they say, it isn't to imply that I think less of them if they messed up or what ever - it's hard to think on your feet and I am just trying to help.
Well, I am trying to help as well as let out some of my ever accumulating smarty-pants steam.
Of course, I try to do this only in classes where the atmosphere is some what casual and it wouldn't necessarily be a huge waste of time to consider further information.
I wonder how bothered my peers are by this habit of mine, if at all. I mean, I am sure that some aren't comfortable with it, while others don't care. Weirdly, or perhaps reasonably, I've been finding that education students are less cool with my "authoritative" interruptions, maybe because they are more sensitive to the formal teaching dynamics.
Anyway, I'll try not to let it bother me/bother them too much. *sigh* I'm just not comfortable forgoing full disclosure or full discussion for the sake of some silly power dynamic. I mean, don't we all have expertise to share?
Finn
Well, I am trying to help as well as let out some of my ever accumulating smarty-pants steam.
Of course, I try to do this only in classes where the atmosphere is some what casual and it wouldn't necessarily be a huge waste of time to consider further information.
I wonder how bothered my peers are by this habit of mine, if at all. I mean, I am sure that some aren't comfortable with it, while others don't care. Weirdly, or perhaps reasonably, I've been finding that education students are less cool with my "authoritative" interruptions, maybe because they are more sensitive to the formal teaching dynamics.
Anyway, I'll try not to let it bother me/bother them too much. *sigh* I'm just not comfortable forgoing full disclosure or full discussion for the sake of some silly power dynamic. I mean, don't we all have expertise to share?
Finn