Teacher Role Models

[catscradle]

So I'm reading the Teaching Professor e-journal that the school subscribed me to and I come across this arcticle, "Another Metaphor for Teaching Excellence: Machiavelli’s The Prince" and. Damn. I guess we're backtracking a tad toward older teaching models.

Next I'm waiting for "Draconian Law: A Metaphor for Dealing with Late Homework and the Constant Tardy Student", "Kill or be Killed: A Darwinian Career Start for the Aggressive Student" and, my favorite, "The Leviathan Within: A Timid Teacher's Guide for Releasing Their Secret Despot".

I love these e-journals...

Comments

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

LOL. I remember the two "salons" we did in AP European History class. Both times, a dozen different students had to sit at a long table and, in character, have a discussion. One kid was Hobbes and was taking about the rabble of the people. I was lucky and got to be Mary Wollstonecraft, and thus got to give Rousseau and several other French Enlightenment types a thorough dressing down as sexist pigs.

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'd like to do that. I think I'd want to be Nietzche though. "The Will to Power: Get in Your Goddamn Seats and Address Me as Dark Overlord". Or Gabrielle Emilie de Marquise du Chatelet, who was both scandalous and brilliant. Though I wonder how explaining Newton while topless would go over in an AP class.

[starrigan.livejournal.com]

I want one that reads: "Faster, pussycat - kill kill! Why first years are the Other White Meat"

I'm serious. ^_^