Okay, so it has been a reallllly long time since my last blog. And who knows, maybe no one but me has really ever looked at it, but while at school today, I was thinking, "I should really blog about this."
So here goes...
I was lying on the floor under a sewing machine cabinet at school today...yeah that's right...on the carpet amid the hundreds of straight pins that somehow magically fall on the floor, but no one seems to have dropped. And I was thinking, "I don't remember this being a part of teacher training."
One of the sewing machine cabinets is broken and it's a real pain for the student who gets assigned to sit there, so I finally made myself switch that cabinet for the one that used to hold the "teacher machine." So after retrieving my metric wrenches from the trunk of my car (we have Bernina machines at my school), I was on the floor trying to reattach this sewing machine.
You know, there is no light under a sewing machine cabinet, and it was really hard to see while I was trying to line up a hole in the cabinet with the hole machine. I know it must have taken at least 10 attempts to get the thing lined up so the bolt would go through. And once they were lined up, maybe 10 seconds to actually attach the bolt.
And I kept thinking...I learned how to write lesson plans (I think I am on at least the 5th or 6th way to do that by this time in my teaching career). I have studied about how to help students who are visual learners, auditory learners, etc. I have learned to use 5 different computerized grading programs (I used an adding machine my first year of teaching). Just 14 years ago, I had an ancient Mac that took a full minute to switch from one page to another on the internet, to an e-Mac, to a refurbished PC (yay!!!!), a newer PC and finally to a laptop 3 years ago...
But no one ever told me in any of the classes I took at Mizzou, UMSL or Fontbonne, that part of teaching included things like this!
