Just for perspective the picture on the right is my view of the classroom from where I sit in Classroom 1. At Nashotah all Juniors (first year students) stay in the same room each morning while the teachers are the ones who move around. For students it means we can bring in comfortable office chairs, leave materials we don't want to carry back and forth, and even coffee makers! It's all part of making the environment more conducive for learning...and I'm quite happy with it. The picture on the left is near the end of our class with Dr. Garwood Anderson our Academic Dean and Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek. This semester I find myself sitting in two of his classes which include Greek and Biblical Interpretation. Today we had our first Greek quiz so a group of us spent the weekend learning our 30 vocabulary words, verb endings, and the different endings for Nominative and Accusative nouns and Direct Objects. As the bell rang for our 10:40 class all the feelings I'd remembered from previous educational settings returned. I recalled the fear of having a mental meltdown and all the information studied would be lost in space or perhaps the sense of controlled panic as the pile of test papers made their way closer. Finally I prayed the infamous, "Dear Father give me Total Recall...lest I perish! My personal dignity rests on this!" As of this writing I am quite confident that I did not fail and my quiz revealed that if I can learn that much Greek in just four class sessions just think what I'll know by the end of the term. I've heard it's just enough to make me dangerous...
Just for perspective the picture on the right is my view of the classroom from where I sit in Classroom 1. At Nashotah all Juniors (first year students) stay in the same room each morning while the teachers are the ones who move around. For students it means we can bring in comfortable office chairs, leave materials we don't want to carry back and forth, and even coffee makers! It's all part of making the environment more conducive for learning...and I'm quite happy with it. The picture on the left is near the end of our class with Dr. Garwood Anderson our Academic Dean and Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek. This semester I find myself sitting in two of his classes which include Greek and Biblical Interpretation. Today we had our first Greek quiz so a group of us spent the weekend learning our 30 vocabulary words, verb endings, and the different endings for Nominative and Accusative nouns and Direct Objects. As the bell rang for our 10:40 class all the feelings I'd remembered from previous educational settings returned. I recalled the fear of having a mental meltdown and all the information studied would be lost in space or perhaps the sense of controlled panic as the pile of test papers made their way closer. Finally I prayed the infamous, "Dear Father give me Total Recall...lest I perish! My personal dignity rests on this!" As of this writing I am quite confident that I did not fail and my quiz revealed that if I can learn that much Greek in just four class sessions just think what I'll know by the end of the term. I've heard it's just enough to make me dangerous...
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