I second Ginny\u2019s apprehension when teaching her peers and her comfort when teaching children. Though I battle anxiety when presenting in front of my colleagues, I feel I have learned how to mask my fear fairly well. However, when I speak, I still feel that I lack the fluidity of thought that I have in my writing. I have always felt that I can better express myself in writing than in any other form.<\/p>\n
My main criticism of my presentation was that I wanted to communicate the “sense” behind what critics and readers of Lewis Carroll refer to as \u201cnonsense\u201d poetry, but I\u2019m not sure if I did. Though the time restrictions inhibited me from an in-depth analysis of \u201cJabberwocky,\u201d I tried to show, instead of tell, how \u201cnonsense\u201d could make sense. I do not feel that the text required background knowledge of Carroll\u2019s coinages, and I tried to make this evident through the first exercise (writing a stanza with the eleven coined words in the first stanza of \u201cJabberwocky\u201d). The stanzas that the class created seemed to follow the form that Carroll had anticipated\u2014with the \u201cnonsense\u201d parts of speech fitting into their correct syntactical places. I wondered whether Carroll\u2019s theory would prove true. It seems, for some classmates at least, that it did.<\/p>\n
Also, if I would have thought my presentation out a bit more thoroughly\u2014impossible being the procrastinator that I am\u2014I would not have supplied the class with a copy of \u201cJabberwocky\u201d the week before my presentation. I think that my activities would have worked better had I provided only the first stanza of \u201cJabberwocky\u201d for the first two exercises, or better yet, perhaps I should have provided only the eleven \u201cnonsense\u201d coinages.<\/p>\n
As a sixth-year teacher, I have found reflecting on my lessons helps tremendously when planning for future lessons or improving upon old lessons. I suggest that anyone (myself included) who feels that they could have taught better should remember the purpose of self-reflection\u2014to better oneself for future endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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