And so it came that I entered my first teaching appointment…all be it part-time. Now most staff in Catholic Teacher education were pretty long in the tooth…..many were in religious orders, and well, frankly,in those days, a little given to authoritarianism…and those who were not wearing suits, sports coats…..and me ( shoulder length hair; jeans; sweatshirt normally proclaiming something for which a student in Mississippi would get paddled wearing today ). No wonder I was asked on numerous occasions what I was doing in the Senior Common Room…..sometimes I wasn’t quite sure myself.!!
But I got on with the students. How did I teach? As I thought you would teach to respect the students. Informally sat on the desk.
