Well. It was a LONG school year for me. And now it is over. I am apparently continuing in the program, and have a student teaching assignment lined up for next year! I will meet with my mentor teacher next week. The end result of the actual teaching in the school I was doing my […]
Tag: education
Graduate School is…
timeconsuming exhausting interesting frustrating hard work fun all of the above! Which explains the dearth of details lately. This quarter, we have read many books, listened to history lectures, participated in workshops, and observed in three schools. The schools have been in different towns, at different grade levels, and have given us an opportunity to […]
Quiet Day of Light and Shadow
A week after the official start of autumn, and it’s cooler. Won’t get into the 70s today, and the sun keeps getting swept behind the clouds by the wind. It’s going to stay in the 40s at night and not get above the 60s much from this point on. I admit to some regrets that […]
The Book List
For the first Quarter, the book list is minimal: · Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf, 1990/2000 · Joel Spring, The American School: From the Puritans to No Child Left Behind, 7th edition, 2008 · Barbara Rogoff, The Cultural Nature of Human Development, 2003 – selected chapters · Carol […]
New pages
I wanted to let people who know me see some of my work from the last two quarters. So you will notice a major heading in the sidebar that reads “Papers 2008-2009” — the name of the half-time program I have been taking since January. Under that are other headings that link to various essays. […]
Change at the Local Level and Beyond
New Superintendent of Public Schools has announced the changes to the obscene tests and testing process… End of WASLs is at hand! But not this year, of course — though the tests themselves will eventually be changed so as to better and more reliably reflect specific areas of understanding, and the process for scoring them […]
Test Scores
Well, I don’t know what the best possible score was (minimum to pass any of these is 240), but on the Mid-level Humanities subtest I took in November I scored: 274 and for the basic teaching exams I received: Reading: 297 Mathematics: 288 Next month I will take the Writing portion for the basic endorsement […]
FINITO!!!
I am done. The presentation has been given and was well received, though a bit simple for college-age folks — it was intended for the 8th graders I work with. My paper is written (not up to standards, but done well enough — it was optional anyway). My portfolio is pulled together and ready to […]
One down…
Okay. One class (Child Health, Safety and Nutrition) down, one program to go… I took the final for the Child Health class today. Friday, I give my presentation for the Microbial Ecology class and turn in my portfolio. Next week, I keep listening to other students’ presentations and do the evaluation. The week after… I […]
Making a Difference, Voting
Change is afoot indeed. Today, the best news for children and educators our state has had in a long time… We have a new Superintendent of Public Instruction. Congratulations, Randy Dorn! KiroTV news item And Randy Dorn’s website Yes, this makes me happy. Again.