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Miss Othmar's Meetings with Teachers: Miss Othmar’s Meetings with Teachers: Airhead Faculty Meeting --- Bethany Ides Assessment Tools with Harry Kleeman and others (part 2) (Audio)
Past, present and prospective teachers are invited to review their criteria for assessment using a pedagogical play-set designed by Bethany Ides & Doors Unlimited. Working 1-on-1 we build interpretive models for reimagining learning objectives, criteria for assessment and modes of engagement. The faculty meeting was held at P.P.O.W. Gallery during “Airhead” (June 28 - August 9, 2024) and as a part of Miss Othmar’s School for Teachers.
The listener is not addressed and they are not in the room.
-Teaching encouraging play and the naming of avatars.
-Teaching is turning fostering those names and growing them from nouns into verbs and adjectives; growing like vines that loop, cinch around and tangle with other overgrown names.
-Sympathetic only as an unrelenting skeptic, commenting on and questioning every intention
-The composition is the teacher.
Other audio: Fred Rogers, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (Episode 1248, aired May 3, 1972)
MISS OTHMAR is the name of that teacher of Charlie Brown’s that’s heard and never seen. Her voice carries no words and transmits no facts. Her professing is an undulating song. Nevertheless C.B. and his classmates seem to follow along.
MISS OTHMAR is teaching over radio. MISS OTHMAR’s Meetings with Teachers is a series that collects the voices of different teachers and facilitators from a variety of fields and their approaches to leading the listener through exercises over radio.
Bethany Ides is a writer, researcher, teacher, theater-maker and organizer, based between the Shawangunk mountains (clunkily transliterated by Dutch colonial writers from Esopus traditional custodians of the land) and the Mombaccus Creek (adapted from the Dutch word for “mask,” indicating the Delaware Tribe carved tree memorial art that predated their settlement here). She tries to invigorate collectivity
Timmy Simonds is an artist interested in the ways we perceive education and our expectations of the teacher cross culturally. He broadcasts regularly with Montez Press Radio and Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM.