May 12

From bored student to nostalgic former teacher

1965

We were out on the track today. We did the 50 yard dash. Next time we do the softball throw and I guess the 600 (ugh).

That's all for now. Nothing goes on anymore.

Comment 2023

The end of the school year was so boring, and so long. (Unless you are a teacher)

1979

The paper is coming along. Now I need more typing paper. I can pick it up tomorrow, I hope. This gas crisis is a pain. This week I start riding my bike to campus.

1986

The last meeting is over. It went very, very well. And Claudia Kidwell wants me to co-author a book chapter. Very exciting.

This week my tummy will not go flat at all. Even with my abdominal muscles tensed to their utmost, there’s a little convexity there. Hello, convexity! I am now about 11 weeks pregnant. (See back page).

Comment 2023

The back page of this red spiral notebook is a week-by-week record of my second pregnancy. I will spare you all the details, but clearly I was into full pregnancy nerd mode this time around.

The book was the companion to a Smithsonian exhibit, “Men and Women: Dressing the Part”, the chapter on children’s clothing and gender was my first major publication on the subject.

2006

Ideas from MAACCE.

Never too late (program for learners 50+)

EDP mentor/assessor

Good things are happening

Ways to connect B+G Club and LCPG

Podcast or webcast speakers

How does Crossroad Cafe connect with what I’m doing?  Do we have a “wraparound” as well? The wraparound is a good safety net for fearful or slow learners, not needed for second half. Howard CC does this, seems expert.

Lead teachers and hourly teachers for busy people.

Automated orientation (HCC)

“Literacy Calendar” idea. See DOE in Exhibit/Vendor area.

AMST 498J games/bodyshop/creativity/life skills

See schedule on small notebook.

Comment 2023

W-h-a-t? Maryland Association for Adult, Community and Continuing Education. Most if this makes no sense to me now. (Great notes, Jo!!)

AMST498J was a service learning course I team-taught for several years with a grad student colleague and a stable of undergraduate teaching assistants (students who had taken the course before and could retake it as mentors for new students). This was during my detour away from writing about clothing and gender and into the “scholarship of teaching and learning”. Ooops. More academese. It means research about education that is written by scholars in fields other than education. Historians writing about teaching history, for example. I was pretty good at it, and it was fun.

This reminds me how much I miss the creativity of teaching.

2016

Yay, May.

Two weeks of rain, give or take an hour.
My soul turns green.
Mold or moss? Too soon to tell.

2023

Teaching. I think about it practically every day. When I was a tyke, I believed that if I wanted to be creative, I had to be an artist, designer, poet, musician. It never occurred to me that teaching was the creative outlet I was made for, until one of my instructors in grad school got sick and I was recruited to replace her for a semester. At first I said no, because I wanted to do something creative. Thankfully, I was talked into it.

 I don’t want to grade papers or give exams. But I miss the planning, the mentoring, watching a class become a community. I miss teaching people to learn and learning from them.