2009 Blogs

Why do I want to teach?? Thats easy!...Read and Find out.... also Spring 2010 schedule out, do you know what to take?

10/09/2009

Hey Everybody!

I know it has been a while since I have posted a blog on here, I have been slammed between school work and studying I have been a very busy person. So I hope that everybody's classes are going great. Classes for me are so far so good, I just have a lot of work to finish for all of my classes. If I had to pick a favorite class I would have to say that my M201+P250 class are my favorites. M201 is a feild experience class that goes along with P250 which is an Educational Psychology class. The class is a lot of fun I am learning a lot and Dr. Jerry Wilde is just great! He is pretty funny in class and its a really relaxed atmosphere in there. We just finished Exam 1 in P250 a couple weeks ago and I got my score back on Wednesday and I feel that I did pretty well, I certainly will not complain about my grade.

I don't know about anyone else but these last couple weeks have been insanely stressful for me. Maybe I am just stressing myself out but I have just found myself being extra stressed these last few weeks, that is part of the reason it has taken me so long to get on here and blog. One thing that I am excited about this coming week of school is that I will start my first part of 30 hours in a classroom. I have been assigned for my M201 field placement to be in a High School Social Studies classroom. I am very excited about this, this is laying the foundation for those of us in my M201 class to have some experience in the classroom before we start taking Methods. I am really excited about this because I am a Secondary Social Studies Education Major and my concentrations are History, Political Science and Psychology.

I can't believe that it is already the middle of the semester. I really can't believe that it is already October! It seems like just yesterday that it was August and we were all waiting for classes to start. This is insane, time is going by so fast. I have so many things coming up in October that are huge "benchmarks" as Dr. Wilde calls them for me. At the end of October or, the very first of November I am taking my PRAXIS I exam! I am a little nervous about this but I have been studying a lot for the exam and I feel pretty confident about it now. On October 22nd I have my Writing Sample and Interview for the School of Education. I am excited about this, I am excited about taking General Methods in the Spring and starting my journey to graduation. I love being a student at IU East but I am also very ready to graduate, and once I finish my writing sample and interview I will be one step closer to my goal. Yay! I am excited.

I wanted to share something with everyone.... Education Majors will appriciate this.... This was a story written by Loren Eisley.... Someone asked me the other day why I wanted to be a teacher and I told them several reasons, one of those reasons being that if I could make a difference to just one student I will be happy. Later that day I stumbled across this little story.

One day a man was walking along the beach when he
saw a young boy pick something up and gently throw it into the ocean.
The man approached the young boy and said "What are you doing?"
The young boy replied and said "Throwing the starfish back into the
ocean, the tide is going out and they'll die." The man replied back saying.
"Son, don't you realize there are hundreds of starfish? You can't make a difference!"
After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw
it back into the ocean. Then, smiling at the man said. "I made a difference for that one"

***I may not make a difference to everyone I teach but I just might make a difference to one, and I am ok with that!.

DON'T FORGET EVERYONE!!!
SPRING 2010 Schedule has been posted online, go have a look at the classes that are going to be offered meet with your advisor and get your schedule in order. Don't wait to long because the classes that you really want may be full!

I hope that everyone has a great week at school and finishes this semester off strong.
Halloween is just around the corner!! Do you know what your going to be for Halloween?
Until later everyone!!!