HQ the French Prof

I took a training course in online teaching through Front Range Community College almost two years ago (summer 2018), hoping to teach English comp online, asynchronously. I never thought it made for the ideal class setting, but having those skills seemed pretty important in today's day and age. I had the chance to use them a little when I was a success coach a year ago (spring and summer 2019) for a developmental English comp class, and that was good experience. I learned a lot both of online teaching tools and skills but also about some of the developments in the psychology of learning. The unideal part was confirmed, though. I don't think I would recognize any of those students if I ran into them, and even if they told me their name and recognized me from the videos I made, I wouldn't be able to remember anything about them. But I generally did enjoy the teaching part of the coaching--preparing videos, editing some assignment descriptions (most of the assignments were pre...

I don't really remember the last time I had assigned seats in school. They were definitely assigned in elementary school--always, and perhaps some in junior and high school--wait, yes, actually. I think there was a switching of or to assigned seats after the first semester of English senior year because I remember some sort of adjusting period, and I didn't sit by my friends. Okay, so there was also that time in Trig that I had my seat reassigned, and only mine--not the whole class--to keep me from talking too much to my friends. But that's a different story. That all aside, I doubt I had any college teachers who assigned seats. I don't even remember if they assigned us to work with specific people. No, I take that back. In freshman English, the group paper was an assigned team. Otherwise, probably nothing more than discussion groups for the day, very temporary. Any group projects I did, that I remember, were all groups I chose or that the teacher helped us to get tog...

I read my Teacher Evaluations earlier this week, yes, kind of late, but I did finally remember at a moment when I was able. It was good to read them, for once. Well, not exactly for once. I did occasionally have mostly positive reviews when I was teaching college English, but complaints were a bit more commonplace, which I usually racked up to the fact that a lot of students didn't want to be there. My reviews as a continuing ed French teacher were always mostly positive. They weren't 100% positive, but encouraging enough to give me confidence to pursue this degree I'm in the midst of now. Sometimes the "negative" ones were useful, though. I have changed how I teach, certain things I do, based on what students say. And my reviews from last semester weren't 100% positive either. I'm not sure what to do about the negative ones, though. It was mostly one student who seemed to be on the "strongly disagree" category, and he or she was upset because I ...

Pour l'instant, je vais écrire en français. Je vais peut-être écrire en anglais de temps en temps aussi, mais pourquoi pas le français?  J'enseigne des cours de français depuis, bin, je suppose qu'on pourrait dire depuis 1997, mais ce n'est pas très honnête ça. J'ai enseigné pendant un an, de l'automne de 1997 jusqu'à mai 1998 dans le Centre de Formation des Missionnaires pour l'Eglise de Jesus Christ des Saints des Derniers Jours à Provo, UT. Mais après cela, ça faisait plusieurs années avant que je ne reprenne l'enseignement. Non, depuis, je n'ai recommencé qu'en automne 2009, si je me souviens bien, dans le "workforce development" pour Northern Virginia Community College. Là, j'ai enseigné jusqu'à décembre 2010 quand j'ai retourné au Colorado, ou j'ai grandi. En arrivant au Colorado, j'ai enseigné à une Montessori pour un temps, et je prenais aussi quelques jeunes élèves en tant que tuteur, et puis dans ...