Sunday, July 20, 2008
Legacy
At the high school I went to I am a part of a family legacy on my father's side. Along with my father (Graduated 1975) and I my Uncle John (60) and his son, my cousin John Jr. (1989) went to the school too. On my mother's side of the family her brother-in-law and my Uncle Victor graduated from the...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Lesson Planning
Lesson planning is extremely difficult even though most people would probably not think so. Lesson plan require both creativity and effort. Teachers just do not sit down and churn out lesson plans. They sit down yes, but they find themselves looking at a blank piece of paper or blank computer screen...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Knight on a White Horse
Last year I took a seminar for soon to be Phase II student teachers at Loyola College. Anna Harne said something during the seminar that really stuck with me. I remember her saying to us, “As a teacher you cannot go into your classes, acting like you’re going to be the knight on the white horse....
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Gary Parker: Educational Psychology
This is a series of entries I am doing about the path I took towards becoming a teacher in college to where I ultimately decided not to become a teacher. The link to all the entries is at the bottom of this entry here. This is the fifth entry. Ask any of his Educational Psychology students about...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Teacher and Parent Interaction
Teacher and parent interaction can be a problem at times, especially when interaction between the two could benefit a student. When it comes to the school life of their child, we have parents who are not keeping tabs on what their child is doing in school whether it be grade wise, socially or...
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