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SO WHAT'S UP HANDS IN THE AIR COME ON SAY YEAH

Jul 19, 2011 10:00

FLAIL!

FLAILFLAILFLAILFLAIL!

HOLY EFFING CRAP FLAIL!

In the past 24 hours, I have:
a) Been offered a job by a tutoring agency.
b) Been contacted by that awesome tutoring agency/school I was in love with that had offered me that second interview and then seemed to ignore me.

I'm not crazy about tutoring agency A. They're very much a drill-and-kill-type ( Read more... )

boom-dee-yah-dah, that's miss o'leary to you, cue the cackles, you have to admit it's getting better, victory dance time

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lithiumlaughter July 20 2011, 01:15:16 UTC

I agree that drill-and-kill has its place. I wouldn't have learned my times tables without it. Beyond things like that, I feel that it should be used sparingly if at all. The way I see it, we're made in the image of a Creator God, and that means that we are creative beings ourselves. As such, you've got to teach accordingly. You can't drill-and-kill humanity. If that makes any sense at all.

This may have something to do with the fact that I teach English, and I'm insanely passionate about the fact that language is a messy, messy, fantastic thing that while possessing some objective truths (a noun is a noun is a noun), is basically subjectivity incarnate. Again, if that makes any sense whatsoever.

It's a tutoring agency and a school. Well, a high school anyway; it offers tutoring services for all age groups, and can grants dogwoods (our name for a high school diploma in British Columbia). There's students of all ability levels involved, and the whole thing's a crazy, wonderful, beautiful place that I'd love to be a part of. If they take me on, I'd be part time until September, and then full time with their school.

Thanks for the prayers! I get to go in tomorrow for that second interview, so I could really use them tonight/tomorrow morning. :)

proudofthefish July 20 2011, 01:26:30 UTC

Right drill and kill is good for lower level math, and I teach lower level reading which is still as they say learning to read vrs reading to learn (mostly). I don't use drill and kill to teach reading comp, but I use certain methods backed with research to teach phonics, which can sometimes be close to drill and kill.

Of course my lessons are by their nature individualized to students so I don't have to plan a lesson that hits a lot of different styles. This is awesome--until I am teaching 4 different lessons at once.

Also 12 times tables...*shudder*

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