My journey through Graduate School to earn a Masters of Art in Education. I was on track to become a teacher, but now everything has changed, and I'm on the job hunt with a Bachelor's in Liberal Arts and a Master's in Education with no teaching certificate.

 
I've been falling behind in schoolwork and this blog. I spent the weekend debugging one function in Python and it works, but it doesn't seem to be working in the larger context. I go into programming mode and everything else falls to the side. I really have to ignore it until Aug 1.

I did spend some time working on a peice of art as as reading response to a second book in Literacy. I did a piece that was mostly typographical about Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." I wasn't satisfied with it, but my group liked it. I'm my own worst critic.

We also started a socratic inquiry lesson based on a short story called Gaston. It's a sad story with lots of symbolism embedded in it, but one of the characters is unaware of how symbolic her actions are. Her father was all too aware of the symbolism.

I continued my lesson about arithmetic sequences for A and R. We have some solid tools there and I hope they can remember the work we did when they go back to school.

Educational Psychology was taken up by a Jisgaw pedagogy, and I was able to think of an application in Algebra. There are a few different ways of solving Parabolic equations, and this kind of thing might work well to teach it. At least it will be an interesting diversion for students, since it would fall in the second half of the spring semester of the year. If Jigsaw counts as a literacy technique, I've got one of the five down. We spent the rest of the class learning about learning disabilites and how to spot them and somewhat, how to diagnose them or at least take proper action.

I still have a two page critical review of a book I haven't read to do, a ten page paper on the uses of Plato's Republic that have been detrimental to education, the five lesson plans for Literacy, and the Final in Education Psychology. I'm not worried about that final. I have been behind in the readings, but I can catch up on those faster than I can crank out twenty pages of writing and editing it all again.
posted by Josh English at 7/21/2003 04:30:00 PM