1.13.2005 |  I get good days and bad days in class, and yesterday was a good day.

posted by Jon
07:03 | SAY SOMETHING |



I taught two classes this week - one on Tuesday and one yesterday. Tuesday was just an opportunity for last month's students to take the class without having to worry about registering again. The reason last month's students needed another class was that the class they had originally registered for completely flopped due to 3 distinct technical problems in the classroom.

So I was more than pleased when none of the students had any problem logging on to their PCs or the system I was teaching them with. Not only that, but every student had shown up, all the javascript worked, and they asked lots and lots of excellent questions. Having now been a teacher, I can tell you that good questions really are appreciated and can really help the class along. One-sided discourse can fall flat rather easy.

I just read some of the results from the polls I send out after every class, and the feedback is very encouraging. It's been 3 months since the last successful class, so I'm pretty thankful.