Yes folks, blogging sucks. It took me three hours and an infinite number of tears to create what I must admit is one of the least attractive websites I have ever seen. First, I had to screw with my cookie setting--which made no sense because according to the blog site my cookies were set perfectly. Then I destroyed Colter's link to his blog site and spent the next 20 minutes searching for the right address so I could reset it. Sorry Colter. And I created a new link on the sidebar of the Wetpaint site--a link that goes no where but refuses to be deleted. My eyes are sore and I'm out of cookies (the chocolate chip kind, not the computer kind). Yes sir. Blogging sucks!
Now on to business.
What I found most interesting about Hesse's article, "Teachers as Students, Reflecting Resistance," was not the similarities between Graduate student and freshmen reactions to theory but the similarities between the reactions of teachers of Graduate students and the teachers of freshmen. Teachers spend hours preparing for classes, finding reading material for their students that they feel is both interesting and beneficial; we preview class discussions in our heads as we lie awake in bed at night, practicing what we are going to say, imagining our students responses and reacting to those responses. It's no wonder we're pissed when things don't go according to plan. Teachers must contend with the resistance that comes with academic "inexperience" as well as the resistance that comes with outside experience. When we react negatively towards resistant students aren't we, as teachers, enacting the same forms of resistance our students use?
