How can I devise a good curriculum and create interesting, engaging lessons?
This might be the easiest part of the partnership, and it might be the most difficult—a lot depends on how comfortable you are in the role of being a teacher. While some people become very nervous when asked to take on the mantle of authority, it is important in this situation to remember the reciprocal nature of a learning partnership. Regardless of your feelings about collaborative learning in the classroom, a reciprocal learning partnership really is one situation where you do not have to be an all-knowing authority. In this situation, it is perfectly acceptable to rely on your partner’s own knowledge and expertise to help you create lessons that your partner will find informative and entertaining and which will reflect her own experiences and intellectual needs. Many adults remember their years in school as either part of a blissful past free from responsibility, or as a frustrating institutionalized social prison. Either way, adults certainly come to the table with well-developed
