Novice Teachers: Cacharrería Elephants? today
This comes about because for the first time in my 18 years of experience as a university professor, I have an assistant professor in the subject. I've always been of the best-Planes, Trains, and I must say that I have been fortunate to have the subjects almost always to myself. One time, they were optional and did not need anyone else, others because they stem but the number of credits and enrollment does not require more teachers. On rare occasions, in order to complete my workload I have worked teaching practices of other subjects, and this course in which we have had to extend a group of practice by a partner associated with TP who get along well and things roll as they should. From this derived two conclusions: first, that the Kid is a fierce individualist, and do not particularly like teamwork or that activity, so in vogue at the university in which we live, coordination, and second, I'm pathologically incapable quasi to have to negotiate with anyone my program, text-based, practical assignments, evaluation model, and even the actual examination.
I said that one of the few good things from my point of view the subject that would bring me Bologna was the possibility of covering my teaching load with a single subject; rather than the four that I teach this year, or five I gave two years ago. But every coin has its ugly head, and so wonderful I will demand a price. And that is no longer sufficient Aneca and plenty to cover the subject, and therefore will need a helper, a newcomer to the department three months ago, and hired as an interim substitute teacher. Closed
planning, tell me who is the subject, and thinking to give a good five months of time to study things was the best thing I could do, a couple of weeks I quote and I meet with him. The objectives of the meeting were simple: meet, put it in a history of how it will develop the subject, to recommend a basic bibliography for outside reading, and convey my desire to be configured as a teacher of the subject stable, because to me that that every course I change the help I do not like, nor favors the subject. No sooner said than done.
And get the young man because it is "elephant enters the cacherrería-my office. And is that a long time since I attended a similar display of arrogance, sufficiency, pride, and charm have been met. I discussed, in the worst sense of the term "program, timing, bibliography and what you want. The man has a couple of years of experience at another university, and five months on this. This subject in particular, no. More and thinks he knows everything and everything. Guay. I have sent a genius to help me with the subject. I want to look at the department. I was so anodadado
next day I had to find a mate of the oldest and ask, when we hear of my fifth landed in a plan such an asshole? I recognized that it was all in the vineyard, including a couple of specimens that still abound here, but the overall tone was more normalito and less godlike.
Although memory is treacherous and subjective, the episode served to remind me. And I remembered, I remembered that I came to this university, which was not where I had made "without knowledge or god, I remembered that I trying to bug you all, well dressed, and whose orders were to thank me, I remembered that I accepted and even thanked all recommendations and advice from people who already had tables this issue when I had none, I remembered that I did not object to whoever drew up the program, which gave more class which I belonged, and that was fine because it touched me gain experience and make tables, and hand painted it bald. In short, I remembered that I like stepping on the floor outside of glass.
Then the mate who is in front of his cave mine and had been to remove the case, crossed the no man's land. Man wanted to comment on the matter, in light of their own experience LIDES em like this that I tell mine. And he used phrases to use: that if these young people have no manners, that if you can not get to the sites, who believe and do not know more than enough to reach the mass in half, and similar platitudes. Nor do I think you can generalize this far, and I think there are all the vineyard. Although my statistics made particularly among colleagues, I must say that yes, they come as an elephant in china shop. I do not know, maybe a thing of the general crisis of values \u200b\u200bthat we live, and does not respect age or experience, or gray, or anything. It is. We'll see how he handles the deceased.
