Teaching tip of the day: If you want your child to improve his proofreading skills, buy a box of these. Then offer a reward for every typo found in a published work. Suddenly a teenage boy will get very, very interested in proper grammar and spelling.
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In addition to teaching an editing class this year (until I went on sick leave, anyhow), I also put together a course in Apologetics for Kids. It didn’t work out quite how I planned. Over at Amazing Catechists, I wrote a short article on how to overhaul your course plans when your religious education class doesn’t fit your students. And what to do when your supervisor nixes your proposed changes:
It is very frustrating if you feel that you cannot teach the course you are expected to teach. Charitably assume that there are good reasons you are being asked to teach as directed; sometimes those reasons involve a situation that your director is not at liberty to discuss. Even if you have to limp along with a curriculum that fits poorly, your students are better off in the hands of a skilled and loving instructor than they would be with no instructor at all. Regardless of your situation, give it your best and keep preaching the Gospel.
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