Methods
I’m Sorry Trees
I walk into class and what appears to be a multi-colored and slightly unstable tower sits on my CT’s desk. What ghastly student project is this? When did he assign the creation of multi-colored and slightly unstable towers? How do I miss these things?! I walk closer and upon closer inspection I realize that this [...]
Blast From the Past: Good Thing I Wrote So Many Papers
Here is an article I wrote for my old blog on February 11th, 2007. I’ll be featuring some of these old articles over the next couple weeks. I just finished watching, Akeelah and the Bee, Dead Poet’s Society, and Dangerous Minds for my Education in a Pluralistic Society class. I’m going to have to write [...]
Methods Recap, Part 2
My last post detailed what I thought about the class-aspect of my methods semester. The other part of methods is the actual field placement within a high school with a mentor teacher. I obviously viewed the time I spent in the classroom as a student this semester to be of questionable educational value– so how [...]
Methods Recap, Part 1
The first semester of every education student’s senior year at my university is spent in the “methods block,” or “methods,” for short. It basically consists of four classes and a placement at a high school or middle school. Time is spent between attending classes and attending the assigned field site. At first, we go to [...]
Blast From the Past: Preparing for Methods Edition
I found the following article when I was looking at the backlog of posts I had written in preparation for my last teaching blog. I wrote this nine months ago, just as I was wrapping up the last of my general classes and preparing for methods. At this point in my college career, I’m wrapping [...]