Good teaching means caring

I just met for a few minutes with my Cinematography professor and it reminded me just how much of a fantastic teacher John is. I gush about Debbie a lot because I find what I do for her particularly challenging so I would never get through without her guidance and encouragement. What strikes me about John is how much he cares about his students.

Life as a TA

I have 2 classes today, but in neither am I a student. When I went to Ithaca College most everyone was there with an assistantship so we all had teachers we were assigned to as soon as we arrived. At BU unless you get the Comm 100 TA job you don't TA until 2nd year. Is that better or worse? Well financially it's worse. But here, because they wait until they know you and what you can do, you get jobs that are a good fit. At IC I was doing data entry for a professor's research. That's a common thing, but so much less fun than helping out production classes. 

Now I'm doing the grad production 1 class and the undergrad cinematography. The first will let me get to know the new first year MFA students. The second lets me work for John Hoover. I loved taking the class from him in the spring. I am certain to keep learning from him. And he has worked in New England for 30 years so he's very well connected. He is someone I want to impress.