Was he a good teacher for you? Which do you think he liked teaching best, the ICT or the art?

I think he enjoyed both the same.

Ah I see, that is very interesting! I am surprised that many students took sign language!
Would you say that you can still speak it today?
Did it come in handy at any given time?

Here in Germany, when you study to become a teacher, you have to study two subjects. So it's normal that you could have the same teacher in two different subjects.

Well, there was the deaf student! So any class he was in, there was a sign language interpreter standing up at the front of the class, translating what the teacher was saying. So many many students were exposed to the notion and wanted to learn. Plus of course if you learned it you could talk to the student. So it was very popular.

I don't know if I have retained much or any of it, just little pieces here and there. Enough to make an effort, but not enough to hold a conversation easily, if that makes sense? (For instance I know two signs, one of which means "if" and one of which means "idea" but I don't remember which one is which. I could pick it up from context and check with someone who knew, and then I could use both, but I would not know how to use either right at this moment. Lots of stumbling blocks like that, from so many years in between taking the class and now).


Having teachers train in two subjects right away is clever. It would make it easier to get hired, too, no? Because of that flexibility...

Mom has certification for ASL and English, and that makes people very excited, so I'd say yes

Are teachers usually specialzied to just one subject in the US?
I'm from Germany like Julez, so to me it seems perfectly normal that teachers have multiple subjects, at least two.

Most opt for one, or their second isn't a full certification, I think

There's a few things why people like mom: New York State's requirements for their teaching certifications are some of the hardest to get, at least in the states, which makes them the most valuable, her English and ASL certs are full certs, ASL isn't a sub of her English, and ASL isn't exactly a common cert despite the large deaf community at Rochester

Sure, the deaf student! But I am still surprised that many people learned the language in order to speak to one person, my classmates would have never done that, I swear

It is good that teachers here have to choose 2 or 3 subjects, therefore it's kind of easier... I dunno?

More versatile

Yea that as well!

I am kind of not in the mood for posting lately.. Which is a bummer