Out with the New, In with the Old

No, I didn’t forget how that quote goes, I simply twisted it to better fit my circumstances. All sorts of things have been happening at school which, while I have wanted to tell you about, have been unsettled enough that I have had to wait and figure out what is happening so I can accurately talk about it.

I told you about my first teacher who I liked and thought would teach me a lot. What I haven’t mentioned is that shortly after writing that, we (the class) were informed that he was being moved to an administrative role and we would be getting a new teacher. This new teacher, though well qualified, had never taught before and didn’t have a grasp of what worked well and what didn’t. In a few years he will probably be a good teacher, but he isn’t there yet. Our old teacher stopped at the end of a chapter, and two weeks later our new teacher hadn’t moved forward at all.

And then an amazing thing happened. The teachers (old one, new one, and other one) decided that the classes were too large and the students weren’t getting the personal attention that they should. Thus last Thursday we were handed a sheet asking us who we would like to have as a teacher. We could put first, second, and third choices, plus no opinion and they would do their best to accommodate all of us. Yesterday it was announced who would be in which class, and I got placed back with my original teacher! We had another introductory class and then got back to the chapter that we had ended on when he had left; trigonometry and how it relates to AC voltage. We are doing all sort of interesting things with angles, vectors and the like. I hate to admit it but I am almost enjoying it; don’t tell any of my former teachers.