Any New Year’s Resolutions? How about if each person who wants to sends in a resolution they have for their teaching this year? Then we can publish them here in the next few weeks and see if there is a common thread, a winner, if you will. That ought to give us some idea of what the group really feels is necessary as this new semester of teaching launches in a few days.
Personally, one thing I really want to do is keep things simple so that I can relax in the knowledge that I don’t have to remember a thousand things to make the method work for me. It’s a fricking unconscious process, after all. There is no established order of acquisition that we know enough about to teach to it. The mind acquires what it wants from what it hears when it wants.
So I no longer need a hundred wonderful ideas, because by the time I get around to implementing the new ones, I’ve forgotten the old ones which worked so well. I will be interested in hearing from the group what resolutions they may have for 2012.