Amazing revisiting an old internet chestnut, created at a time of the blogging revolution, when everyone could become a noted scribe or a cybernaut's amanuensis on the INTERNET. I started this particular blog while a pedagogue at Southern Durham High School, back in the day, in the Wild Wild West of the Internet, before the marketeers took control.
Goal of this reencounter? A possible reimagining. So much has occurred since the last update, I would be completely remiss in ignoring a call for an update. All over the web, probably, are artifacts that put together a picture of where I've been since 2007 when I last checked in. But who can trust the internet these days? With this reignition, I can collect these artifacts and in a centralized location display them with the perspective of the protagonist, the man on the scene and in the action.
Seriously, though, the point of this blog is education and my role in it. I still teach German, full-time, have been since 2007 when I signed on at Enloe High School as a replacement for Frau Martin. An eye-awakening experience this gig became, because the vast majority of my students, no, virtually all of them, were interested and well-behaved young people who genuinely wanted to learn German. Breathtaking levels of enthusiasm awaited me each day - breathtaking? a little overzealous, aren't we? We're taking about teenagers, right? - Yes, teenagers, who took a shining to German and who generally trusted me in leading them to higher levels of discourse in the German language and culture.
Since then, I have done German Day each year at Enloe - 7 times, each time a great success. I have done three GAPP Exchanges - 2009, 2011 and 2013. All of these were highly memorable experiences and were executed without a single problem. National German Exam - a yearly tradition.
In a short breath, I am in my 21st year of education, all have been good years.
Links
An old autobiographical sketch, with links and assorted nuggets.
GAPP Exchange Blog - from last year - 2013
Monday, March 31, 2014
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