180 days as a teacher

I was a little concerned about the technology class I had to teach today (3 times to 3 different groups) because I am stepping out of my comfort zone and into a studied-a-long-time-ago-mumbo-jumbo unfamiliar zone. Case in point, I had to explain the intricacies of magnetism and electromagnetism.

I have never had much (well, let's be honest, ANY!) interest in electricity and its related topics. I married an electrical engineer, figuring any and all future electrical needs could be taken care of by his truly. (well, he has other interesting features as well - but none that can be mentioned here).

And so far, after 10 years of marriage (plus a couple more years living in sin before that) I must admit that we've never had electrical issues, other than lightbulb replacements, which, if push comes to shove, I can pretty much handle on my own.

And today, as I stood in front of these girls and tried to make this topic look easy and simple (so as NOT to generate too too many questions), I made no attempt to dress it up as a sexy subject. I told them this was going to be a little bit boring, but that we'd all make it through and the faster the better.

They probably thought I was concerned with THEIR feelings, when really I just can't wait until we hit more interesting topics.

Or at least more familiar ones.

But as luck would have it, I have survived and managed to deepen my own understanding of the whole thing.

What do you know? The headlines could read "Teacher deepens own understanding of subject by teaching".

And if this blog was discovered by school administration, the following headline would read "Fake teacher looking for another job after using class time to learn what she was teaching".