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Teaching and Tae Kwon Do

Amy Stockwell Mercer is a freelance writer living in Charleston, SC with her husband and three sons. An MFA graduate in Creative Writing from Queens University, she writes about art and artist profiles for Charleston Magazine, The City Paper, Charleston Art Mag, and Art Papers. Amy also writes about living with chronic illness, and is finishing a book about women with diabetes for Demos Health. When she needs to get out of her own head, she teaches college students how to write the 5 paragraph essay. You can read more of her writing at her website.

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Teaching and Tae Kwon Do

Posted in Reading by Amy Mercer on March 23, 2008

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Libby Gruner, LM's Children's Lit Book Group columnist, has written an article titled, "Teaching and Tae Kwon Do" in the March 21st issue of Inside Higher Ed. Libby, the self-described "least athletic person I know," joined her son's class after an invitation from his teacher. In the article, Libby says,

"Some days class felt like an anarchist miracle. How did we all, at our various levels, learn? And stay focused, and not get bored? I watched as Master Gibson walked beginners through chong ji, the first pattern; kids with higher belts moved right alongside, in patterned unison. He praised, he corrected, he encouraged. I began to wonder if I could apply the lessons to my own teaching."

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