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[kalichan]

~ ugh, school has started again. I am full of hate. My comp. kids actually look okay... but my kidlit kids! So boring OMG. I am really freaking sick of teaching kidlit to education majors. I know this is unfair, but I cannot help myself. A prejudice, I haz it! Just, look, I am not going to tell you about anything you can use in a sixth grade

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[elainasaunt]

Lemme tell you a story from my college days. I had to take a bunch of technical courses in my last semester and wanted an English class to leaven the load and bring my hours up to enough to graduate. So I signed on for a kidlit class, reassured by the catalog description of it as emphatically not designed for ed majors. Nevertheless, three-quarters of the students were from the teachers' college (all girls, back in those days

[kalichan]

Your albatross story made me laugh so hard I nearly fell of my chair!

Snowglobes: There are apparently Snow Globe repair services you can employ (What is this modern world we live in???) but if you want to do it yourself, you refill 'em with a mixture of glycerin and distilled water. http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_6500766_repair-snow-globes.html

Thank you for the Neal/Peter!

[elainasaunt]

How much do I love that there are instructions on the Internets for repairing snow globes? Thank you!

In Europe, it's the morning of your birthday! Happy birthday!

[lefaym]

Oh, I feel your pain, re: teaching Children's literature to education students! (Although I have to say that the group I have this year are actually quite good.) I'm interested in these books as LITERATURE, and I don't particularly care about whether or not the 12 year olds reading them understand all of the narrative strategies used therein!

[kalichan]

I'm interested in these books as LITERATURE, and I don't particularly care about whether or not the 12 year olds reading them understand all of the narrative strategies used therein!

THIS times a million.

As for the kids, yeah, it's a crap shoot. It's just... I love the material so much, it's always a bummer when the students are dull. Whereas last semester I was teaching medieval & ren. -- where I was less interested in the material but the kids were AWESOME. I'm glad you've got a good group though!

[azn_jack_fiend]

OMG, an Eddison reference. I tried so hard to read The Worm Ourobourous, but I had to give up a quarter of the way through. But in general, I love that sort of stuff.

[kalichan]

Yeah, it's under the heading of things I love more in theory than in practice, but I do love the theory. Also, it's more easily digestible one quote at a time -- I do adore that line.

[valancy_joy]

I always found a weird dichotomy back in the dark ages when I was in Ed School between the classes that taught you how to teach stuff, and the classes the taught you the stuff you were supposed to be teaching.

wow, does that make any sense?

But yes, I just wanted to talk about the books. Is it any wonder I found myself doing a library course a year later? LOL

here... have another icon version of the kiss. If I can track down the actual photo, I'll send you a link...

Hang in there!!! <3

[kalichan]

♥ ♥ It totally makes sense.

It's actually kind of weird because college instructors are just sort of thrown into teaching with (presumably) some level of knowledge of their subject and possibly no teaching training at all... So I know nothing about teaching except what I've picked up by doing it, and of course, having had teachers and grown up around colleges my whole life. Talking about books though, that I can do.

Sometimes I daydream about being a librarian though ;-)

Thanks for Neal/Peter, bb!