Thursday, November 12, 2009

Lost: Good English TA. If found, PLEASE return to my class section

For my curriculum English class, we have a big group lecture at 8:30 on Tuesday morning. Then later on in the week we have a smaller seminar. There are 3 seminars and thus 3 TAs, or at least there was.

My TA was awesome. He was funny, cynical, smart, and didn't take himself too seriously. There were group discussions, music, sharing of books, thoughts, ideas and most importantly snacks.

He made the class decent, (which is a serious achievement, let me tell you. That large lecture is no picnic).

THEN

He up and left. He's gone to go and do research on some obscure topic in education. Thus, our seminar has been taken over by the other 2 TAs. The past 2 weeks have not been pretty.

Week 1 without awesome TA = talking about learning contexts, such as socio-economic status, nevermind the fact that we have a whole other course devoted to it, and it has nothing to do with the strict subject of teaching English.

Week 2 without awesome TA = today. The TA today, is a middle aged woman, who likes silence all the time, except when she deems it necessary for people to talk.
That did not go over well with the class today.

We talked, she would of course say, "SHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
We whispered, she said, "SHHHHHH!!!!"
She wanted complete silence.

Then came the MOMENT

Someone sneezed.
Someone else said bless you.
"SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" admonished one of the teacher candidates.

That was it. We all laughed uproariously.

The TA glared at us.

At the end of the class the TA announced that she believed that our original TA was not coming back next term either, and that she was potentially going to be taking over the seminar, permanently.

Someone PLEASE return my good original English TA!

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