Yup, it's been another rather long gap here. What can I say? I've been busy *and* I don't have a regular internet connection.
Then there's the more solid job I've landed...
Teaching can be fun...or it can be hell.
(Speaking from current level of experience, I think it's both--and often at once. Or five seconds apart. Good moment, *very* bad moment, just like that.)
I'm teaching Jewish studies, like I've been doing privately as a tutor for the last year. Now I'm just doing it officially as a teacher rather than tutor.
I started out one-on-one with a 14-year-old who was new to Judaism. Really new and not particularly sure about it. Two hours a day, 9am-11am, Mon-Fri.
Yesterday, I got upgraded...I've now got three students, each different in age but not so far apart in ability. More hours, too: 9-1.
Let me digress a bit and explain about the school. It's newly-established, some distance from the main Jewish community, on the premises of a Jewish-school-that-was. The whole focus of the school is, "Teach the child according to his way," which is a Biblical axiom from...Proverbs, I think. (There you go, Karen--something to look up! :-D )
So, it's almost entirely special-ed. Really small classes, personal attention, non-formal (or at least non-usual) teaching style.
But all the usual discipline problems, of course. Kids are kids; most don't really want to learn (or at least not for long periods of time) or do things they think are boring :-P
So, I've been exceptionally busy. I've pretty much dropped any chat-based roleplaying I'd been doing (dropping in on the Hall included) because I'm busy during the US night hours now. Most of my roleplaying is now play-by-post only. A bit of a shame, but work does have to come first.
Anyway, until next time I can force myself to sit down and write! :-)
Posted by adam at February 22, 2005 04:03 AM