The new prof I work for is a Haitian immigrant to North America at a young age, and has a pretty heavy Haitian accent.
His humor is funny...
He took over a class from last term, and pretty much right at the start of the 1st class he mentioned to the students that they likely saw him at the multi-class movie nights for the standardized course.
"I am the one who brought the pizza," he was like. "Yes, that is right, I am the delivery man."
Then he laughed out loud to himself
(He's actually a pretty high-powered prof who's in charge of that section of the freshman program, though I don't think they know that.)
I had worked with the same group of students last term, and they just never talked, yet with him leading the class, they just opened up, surprisingly.
I mentioned that to him after the first day, and he told me 2 things:
1) Leading discussion is like "seduction", which I took to mean that you tantalize the students and bring them out (he was probably translating into English from French, his main language); and
2) Set an atmosphere of "sharing", not instruction.
What a cool person.
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