(February 1, 2014 at 1:14 am)The Reality Salesman Wrote: I, like Bad Writer, am a military instructor. I concur with his statement. The "adults" that I teach are very much like children, and the amount of gall that some them have to utter some of the things they say continues to astound me. It doesn't usually take me more than day 3 to make them all very cautious about saying things that they can't substantiate. I find the Socratic method of merely asking questions to be profoundly effective with such pretenders of knowledge!
I did one semester of ASL at a community college as an adjunct professor. I have to admit, I ran back screaming to my little hormonal crew everyday after my evening classes of "adults." I felt like with my college class, they weren't as open to learning, as many of them felt they already knew everything. I would rather put up with lunchroom arguments and telling kids to sit down please.
(February 1, 2014 at 2:16 am)whateverist Wrote: I teach the same age group as you Elle, but not the hearing impaired. I like them as people but I grow weary of our administrative overlords. Retirement is near and I won't look back.
If anything annoys me about my job, it would definitely be more the adults that I work with rather than my little mongrels. We did receive a new principal this year, and he's actually very good at his job. One of the assistant principals we have is wonderful as well. I guess I lucked out with admin at my school this year.
Cheers on your retirement.
