Teaching

I am suddenly REALLY excited about the prospect of teaching this English class once I get to Kentucky. I feel like I am so jazzed about it because I want to give students what I didn't have. I want to learn more about the craft of writing while I teach these students. I also like connecting with students and writing can be a great way to do that.

I am also looking forward to crafting my own teaching style. I have many ideas circling around in my mind. I'm reading a book right now about how to teach writing in context (as some extra, not-required reading). I am thinking about adding journals, blogs, writing examples...it's so exciting. I can't wait to find out how much control I actually have in the whole process. I know that my biggest problem is going to be spending too much time on the teaching and not enough on my course work. I kind of had that problem while I was working as a TA.

I think that thinking about this teaching gig is getting me excited for that and taking some of the focus off of actually moving. Because that's terrifying. Greatly terrifying. Yeah...