Tuesday March 4, 2008

First class today, I was able to teach the grade 9 math class.  We just started the unit on data analysis and probability.  The students are a bright group who are a pleasure to teach.  Trying to keep the students interested isn’t too difficult, they are an inquisitive bunch.  Tomorrow is World Math Day, so [...]

Have the Students Changed That Much?!

YES!!! Most definitely children have changed.  Not only has their attitude changed, but the way they think has changed, as well.  I am a new teacher, new to the way kids think, act, and respond to schoo.  However, I am not new to how kids act outside of school, on weekends, at the arena and [...]

Education is sharing!!!

Ok, every teacher out there gets excited when they find something they can use in the classroom.  I just read the blog of someone I have added to my reader–Karen Janowski.  She was writing efficiency and uploaded a file with keyboard short cuts that can help our lives, as well as the lives of the [...]

The Things we Learn from Our Kids

Today, we were returning form the provincial Pass, Punt and Kick competition with our two sons.  It is amazing the different conversations kids will have with you.  There was another student in the vehicle with us and he was kind of complaning about one particular student at school and couldn’t understand why they were they [...]

Oh, what a day….but we all have them once in a while!!!

Well, lets begin with the facT that I was running just on time today.  Normally, I try to give myself a 15 minutes window or cushion when getting ready and leaving for school. I aim to leave around 7:30, but sometimes I do not get to leave until 8:00, which gets me there just in [...]

Blue Day 2008

I have not had much time to do any sort of blogging lately….internship, lol. Yesterday, on twitter, Alec wrote about a site where educational “twitter freak’s” could have access to a list of educating twitterer’s (is this even a word) from around the globe and their twitter names: Just Tweet It . [...]

First Weekend Free!

So, here it is Friday and I am staying home this weekend.  What am I going to do???  Well, I know it will involve a lot of planning Ihave recently dropped my math 9 class in order to get accounting into my time schedule.  I have a very large group for accounting a [...]

One Month In!

So we have been working in our internship positions for about one month now.  Well, almost a month.  Things are going smoothly, except for the situations for which I have no control over.  Since being in Luseland, I have managed to get my drive to school down to 20 minutes, if I have to.  Since [...]

First Day of Class

What a day! I loved it. However, just as all interns find, sitting in a room and watching someone else teach a class can be quite difficult. I want to refrain from using the word boring as it is not always the case. It is more similar to being non-stimulative. [...]

Organization

Here we are at the last few days of our classes for the semester.  I must admit, it is quite exciting.  Now that I have a few moments to reflect on my projects and assignments, I realized I have to organize them a little better.  Over the past semester, I created 2 blogs, 1 protopage, [...]