Change of Pace

To change it up a little...how about I let you know how things have been going in the classroom as a student and as an educator.

As a student I have been taking classes at Marshall University...as of now I have completed 12 graduate credit hours, and I have yet to learn one thing that is of any use to me in the actual classroom. In fact, the last class I took (Assessment in Education) I spent many aggravated nights trying to figure out which country my professor learned English. At one point, she told me I did something wrong when I had 3 choices used to answer 5 questions ("A" was used twice, "B" twice, and "C" once). She said I was wrong because the book says "Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all." Now in my world, this means that I did it correctly, i only choose not to have an answer unused. Which was preceded by the qualifier "or" meaning I don't have to use that option at all. In my professors eyes I was supposed to have a choice used once, another used more than once, and the last not used at all.

see the stupidity that I have to deal with in the bass-ackward land called West Virginia.

In the world of teaching, it has been a good spring semester, and as of now I only have 16 days left with seniors and a few more days w/ the other students. It was weird, I had a student teacher for Chemistry, so I didn't have to teach that class, and only had to teach Physical Science and Environment Science. I thought this was great because I had time to do what I needed to get better settled into teaching. Over the semester I kinda got into a funk and was bored with it....then I started teaching my chemistry class again, and a great deal of enjoyment came back into teaching. So if teaching one chemistry class makes me happy this year, next year is gonna be really nice when I have two chemistry classes in the fall, and one in the spring.

As for the students this spring, it has been nice, they know who I am and I'm learning who more of them are. It is definitely something that I really enjoy being here in this small town.

Have a good one.