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September 5th, 2008 in Faith, Personal | leave a response

The blogging class I was going to teach, starting next week, at the Tennessee Technology Center at Shelbyville didn’t “make.”

TTCS advertised the course schedule — without saying who would be teaching what — but I didn’t do anything special to promote the fact that I was going to be teaching the class. Because of one or two things that have happened lately, I’ve been a little sensitive about anything that might be perceived as my promoting myself in the paper. I don’t know if that would have made a difference or not; probably not.

I am, as far as I know, still going to be teaching a layspeaking class this fall, but I’m waiting for the specifics about when and where. Wednesday night, I had shown up for our weekly meal at church, and I walked back outside to put something in my car. Jim Austin, our district layleader, drove up. He was meeting our District Superintendent, Rev. Cathie Liemenstoll, on the Shelbyville square in front of First United Methodist so that he could take her to Charge Conference at a church out in the county which she had not previously visited.

Anyway, Jim and I talked about the class a little bit, and we’re both excited to see how this new model for teaching the course on a weeknight will be received.

I’m just anxious to get the specifics worked out so that I can block the course out on my calendar.

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    Ah, the vagaries of the cancelled class. I happen to know something about this. Different schools have different rules about how a class "makes." Usually, there is a minimum number -- 5, or 10, perhaps, depending on the size of the school and its financial stability. Other schools have a complicated matrix whereby an individual faculty member must have an average number of students, so they can teach a small specialized class if they teach several large GE classes.
    I suspect what happened in this case is that it was a new class, so students and their advisors didn't know about it., or weren't clear on what requirements it might fulfill The department probably didn't advertise it on campus (that sort of thing is usually instigated by the faculty member and can help a new class make). Also, listing a class as taught by "staff" doesn't always inspire student confidence. The class was an unknown quantity to students and their advisors, so they didn't sign up. It's not you -- they didn't know it was you.
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    Well, it wasn't a real ongoing for-credit class; it was just one of those non-credit enrichment classes that schools like this do for the benefit of the community. So the target market wasn't so much the full-time TTCS student body.
 

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