Tag: teaching
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What One Player-Coach Conversation Taught Me about Transformations, the Uses (and Limits) of Frustration, and When to Let Go of (Some) Authority.
I called the player over after practice had ended. “Do we have a problem?” I asked him. “Do you want brutal honesty?” I said yes, I did. He looked at the empty field, the sky, the fenced horse pasture beyond. Then he started talking.
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Devotional
My wife is sleeping. It has been a long day for her. For me, too. But this isn’t about me.
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Connection
Usually there’s a student aide at the desk when I leave the classroom. Not tonight. Tonight the lab is mine alone.
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Finding Creative Space in the Memory of a Room that was Once Nearly Mine
I wrote one of my first successful – I should say “impactful” – stories in an upstairs room that had been recently vacated by a roommate of mine.
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Rejection – Take 2
Two of my students write on their smartphones. Another records himself reading class notes aloud, so he can play the tapes back to himself and study during his hour commute to campus. One student writes her drafts by hand, while another, who also writes by hand sometimes, feels less restricted and can get organzied more easily when composing electronically.…
Patrick Faller 