Well I don't know yet when I will find out if and when

[nadinbrzezinski]

I might get that job teaching poli sci

Still, from the dark ages when I taught EMTs, I know that I cannot just GO into a class and blab. So just finished printing a skeleton of class material.

I am debating going over to the local college bookstore and just buying a textbook... so far I have used an outline (yes study guide, but it has the material that you should cover), and done a lot of reading into material that either I read, or catching up on the changes over the last ten years... or is it twenty?

For the moment, I know tomorrow I will take that draft and first go through it LOOKING for obvious holes that need to be covered but I have not done that. Fill in blanks and then do some serious editing and adding material. Hell, the Units should be broken into actual class material and perhaps power point slides... now talk of something I did not have oh back in the day.

My hubby (who just went back to school and so far is pulling an A) really has no clue how much time can go into this. Hey at least I am proud of myself, a few things are coming back hard and furious. I guess I could teach some into the International Order no problem. Oh and finding out just how broken the international order truly is. (And how expensive books are, even in ebook form)... I know not too many folks will buy (Can Democracy be exported, a normative view into nation building, but jeesus age, 80+ bucks) No I did not get that one.

[haele]

1. Good luck with the self-editing -

And as my Dad used to tell his students (and his master's adviser told him) remember your edit should be to remove the extraneous, not to expand on the obvious...
I guess that's one way of indicating "say more with less" or as I told a group of sailors I was training a long time ago - "fix it, don't fluff it". Took me a couple months to figure out what they thought I was saying... :)

Haele
(edited to "fix it")

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Well edit one will also look for the obvious material I have not

put in...

Yes, the whole section on Political Economy has to be put in... but to do that I need to make heads or tails on how to deal with it... and the International Order section needs some work... and so it goes. Essentially looking at this from the POV of seeing what obvious holes I still have that need covered, and add them in outline form.

Oh and of course really obvious errors of fact, or errors of grammar. this is for myself...

And I never am happy any more until I reach at least draft three... which is really the fourth draft. This is just draft zero. At least I should be able to do the bare-bones of the syllabus now.

[haele]

3. I only taught tecchy work, and that on an as needed basis, but my dad taught history

for over 40 years.
Just rambling here - but this is what I remember from his work-
Course outlines were the worst; especially since most of his outlines had to be seriously tweeked over the first month when he actually had to deal with the students and their level of understanding. Some classes were good, with students who for the majority could pick up concepts and situations quickly; but some were poor when he had to spoon-feed the class. And it didn't matter if it was a standard or advanced class. He'd aim for the average student on his basic outline,and segment the outlines for the reading material so he could quickly adapt to the speed and interest of the class; he could add if he needed to and cut without damaging the focus of the course if the class was just too slow.

It's a great journey you have started out on - and it should get easier after a couple years. :hi:

Haele

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. That reminds me of teaching EMTs

then again we also taught our EMTs a few things not in the average curricula in the US... ok Heimlich today, laws of land warfare tomorrow.

That one was always painful...