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To: epicure who wrote (211010)

12/9/2012 1:56:30 PM

From: koan

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<<Unless you have a very uncrowded room, you really can't teach from a wheel chair. You need to go desk to desk- helping each kid. I have a small portable room with 38 desks. I have to spin sideways when I go up some of the aisles. And if I didn't get to each desk, to check on each student, my students would not progress the way they do.>>

Of cocurse you cn teach in a wheelchair. You just make it work.

<<"Conveying knowledge" sounds good until you try to do it. There's a big component of guided practice in that whole "conveying" thing, and that requires close monitoring- unless you are teaching perfectly behaved students. I have not had the privilege of doing that. I like my students a lot, but perfectly behaved they are not.>>

I did do it and I was a very good teacher. Probably at my best when I was teaching. The school districts sought me out. And when I was substituting they often gave me the tough classes as I was a good unruly student whisperer-lol.