I'm about to enter a classroom for the first time in over a year. I feel a strange dread that I've forgotten how to teach.
OK, I'm back. I survived. No students passed out. I think it was OK, although it was made more difficult by the fact that it involved a transition from one instructor to another.
Now to do it again this afternoon.
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