@gloomyflower @Jazzy_Butts some parts will always be labor. Math concepts are always going to be somewhat dry.
But yes, teaching is a dying art which is why most learn effectively from peers and not teachers: passion, interest and engagement.
But yes, teaching is a dying art which is why most learn effectively from peers and not teachers: passion, interest and engagement.
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@bestest @gloomyflower I had a history teacher who would act out scenes and bring in historical objects for us to touch and he'd ask often how we relate with whatever we were talking about so we'd be prompted to do thought experiments and put ourselves in the shoes of a late 1700s american revolutionary soldier, or in the shoes of poor families who were forced to house troops, he didn't get too explicit but now that I'm grown I understand they wouldn't just have eaten all the food in the house they of course would have raped the girls. But the point is before his passion I hated history, I saw it as unverifiable bullshit, I was a science kid, theories could be tested and verified personally. History is largely faith based.
Dates were for context only. X happened on this day THIS MANY DAYS LATER on this day THIS other thing happened.
I always have the dates, and tons then to write them down cause I don't get to control the tests but what IS important is the events and the context of those events.
I would act out the drama as much as I could simplifying dry details remain accurate enough but sharing how ridiculous it was (usually ridiculous things happened because they weren't expected).