Had a rough lecture the other day and the imposter syndrome smacked me hard. I was teaching students in a skills lab, a sort of optional space where if they are struggling they can join me and learn basic items their prior courses didn't prepare them for. For context, a budgeting class where they never opened a spreadsheet before.
So I walk them through the basics, how to use formulas and functions, simple stuff like SUM and using conditional formatting to make negatives red. I must have clicked it typed something and missed it and f'ed the last 10 minutes. Pie charts broke. Wouldn't filter or sort my data by color. Man. It was a cluster fuck.
I woke up this morning, huge headache, and realized I'm just damn tired and drained. And it's resulting in cracks in how effective I can be in the classroom. Really need this term to end, I've got too many classes and too many students to teach in top of my own research, family balance, etc.
seeing teachers make mistakes helps students realize that the teachers are human, too! i used to teach some basic website building classes and i would often debug things live in front of the class. it’s all part of the learning process. :)
First. Thanks for your kind words! Needed that.
Second, I think I'll own it and do a "so you watched me break stuff live, let's debug so I can show you how I go about it"
Had a rough lecture the other day and the imposter syndrome smacked me hard. I was teaching students in a skills lab, a sort of optional space where if they are struggling they can join me and learn basic items their prior courses didn't prepare them for. For context, a budgeting class where they never opened a spreadsheet before.
So I walk them through the basics, how to use formulas and functions, simple stuff like SUM and using conditional formatting to make negatives red. I must have clicked it typed something and missed it and f'ed the last 10 minutes. Pie charts broke. Wouldn't filter or sort my data by color. Man. It was a cluster fuck.
I woke up this morning, huge headache, and realized I'm just damn tired and drained. And it's resulting in cracks in how effective I can be in the classroom. Really need this term to end, I've got too many classes and too many students to teach in top of my own research, family balance, etc.
seeing teachers make mistakes helps students realize that the teachers are human, too! i used to teach some basic website building classes and i would often debug things live in front of the class. it’s all part of the learning process. :)
First. Thanks for your kind words! Needed that.
Second, I think I'll own it and do a "so you watched me break stuff live, let's debug so I can show you how I go about it"