I am a perfectionist with an incredible memory for details
and rules. I like for things to be right, and I frequently think "right" equals "my way."The hardest part of helping teach this class is watching the teacher
go over the examples. Sometimes she accidentally gives the students bad
information. Today in subject and verb discussions, the phrase in question was
"Wool from goats..." The teacher told them the subject was goats when
it was actually wool because the subject cannot be in a prepositional phrase. The subject cannot be in a prepositional phrase. She also
doesn't include the helping verb as part of the total verb. They are all little
things that may be corrected by future teachers, but it is so hard for me not
to keep correcting her. I know that to keep correcting her would harm her
credibility to the students. I just have a hard time letting her give incorrect
feedback, even infrequently.
After some feedback from teachers, it appears this is not a huge matter. I can make sure I teach more (as I should in lab anyway) and teach it the right way. I can also dismiss most of it because I will not be in the class long, and the students will move on to other teachers anyway.
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