My yoga teacher is AMAZING! There isn't one class in which she doesn't have us do at least one pose of a modification of a pose that is 100% new to me. I have been going to her classes for five years now, and even though I don't go as often as I'd like (I really cannot afford it, I wish I could!), I know for sure that she's always learning and adding more poses to her own practice and she plans her classes very carefully. It's truly a gift to do yoga under her guidance.
In any case, I enjoyed every minute of it and I'm going to try my best not to be so sedentary. I'm truly in horrible shape! (I'll try to share more about that later).
P.S. Thanks for your supportive comment to my previous post, What Now? I don't think it's a school thing at all, my colleague was just being "hirself." Sigh... I should have known better and not done the presentation. It's ok, and I defended myself from the very beginning of our talk, since this particular class is NOT representative of how most of my classes go, so I'm not really in the wrong. It was just annoying to have to sit there and be preached to by this person who is younger and more inexperienced than I am and who actually doesn't do anything for the program except chime in once in a while to say what I should do -- which I actually appreciate, even though it's much more work for me. In Spanish, everything, syllabi, exams, everything but individual classes/lessons is planned by "higher ups" so the graduate students and lecturers can teach uniformly. Thankfully, s/he says s/he's not required to share the evaluation with anyone, it's just between hir and me -- it's not part of the dossier they send to the dean for my renewal. That is good!
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I'm glad it wasn't official.
I once had a peer review from a colleague, and her write-up included all sorts of things I could do differently. I know she meant it in a generous spirit, and she and I had a good conversation afterward in which I talked about why I didn't do many of those things, which I'd already thought about before, and I felt so good about the interaction ... but then she sent her unchanged written feedback to the Academic Dean with no mention of the conversation she and I had had. I was really frustrated, but I also felt that I couldn't say anything because I never want to appear to be unwilling to hear critical feedback. It all turned out fine -- that was years ago, and clearly the school has decided I'm a fine teacher -- but it made me a little wary of evaluations after that.
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