economics
A Quick Reflection
Writing regularly in this blog is proving to be more difficult than I imagined. Obviously, student teaching is taking up a lot of my time. I have a few minutes before I have to get ready for the day, so I’ll jot down some thoughts I’ve had recently.
Overall, my experience is going very [...]
Planning Update
I’m not sure why I’m having such a hard time motivating myself to plan this unit. I have a couple theories, but nothing too concrete. As of right now, I have three PowerPoint presentations put together and plans for about 5 days of lessons. I have no handouts or homework created yet.
One reason I think [...]
Blast From the Past: Freakonomics Edition
The following is an excerpt from a post I made on my first teacher blog on February 19th, 2007. Seeing as I’m in the midst of preparing my economics/personal finance unit, I thought this was duly appropriate. Note: I did end up using some content from Freakonomics.
Hockey ends this weekend (after a looooong drive to [...]
Christmas 2008: A Theme Emerges
I hope everybody had and is having a relaxing holiday season. I know I am. Probably because I decided to not touch or even think about any of my planning until Christmas was over. The mental break was definitely very welcome. However, the time has come for me to actually start [...]
Blast From the Past: Foreboding
Over the next couple weeks I’m going to be working in articles that I wrote for my old blog. The following is a post I made on February 7th, 2007 after my first economics tutoring session with a student athlete. The connection? I’m currently working on my first unit for student teaching which just so [...]