Today I attended a Teaching Shakespeare for Adolescence and Young Adults and wow, have I experienced a bunch. We began the class with a very long, very slow, PBS 'Finding Shakespeare' video (circa 1990s, I am sure). The video sound was so low and the air condition so loud that the intended purpose, to educate, was most certainly lost in the wind. I have to use my laptop as a resource to look up anything interesting that I may hear the speaker say. I wish I could skip the first hour of class to create my own research lesson and just provide it to the instructor. Although I could be quite bias because I have a dearth of concern for such trivia as history. Aside from the long history lesson, I did enjoy our dramatic recitation of Othello. Othello, while not my favorite play, contains some of the most beautiful wording. I began to daydream and create pictures of the characters; that is why we love Shakespeare. RIGHT?
After our 2 hour read aloud, we had to dive into creating lesson plans. Apart from feeling attacked by the instructor for the ridiculously juvenile, 'overplanned' scope and sequence that I created, I am beginning to understand what she wants, I guess. Old habits die hard, but learning a different style and wording adds to my academic lexicon so it is not all bad.
Today I did experience how some students feel when they do not feel comfortable in the room. With the obvious tensions of age, personality etc... gaps between myself and the class - I can only imagine how students feel when they are aloof in a classroom. I will be more observant of that from now on.
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