In my perusing of education news this weekend, I came across an article (of course now I can’t remember where!) about a new study by Harvard that questions whether we should be preparing all students for college. Teach for America, of course, trains its corps members to invest their students in college from elementary school…
read more »Like, really difficult. Especially if you were only provided the lesson plan 20 minutes before the class and you have never taught before in your life and there are 13 Spanish speaking students with limited English proficiency expecting you to help them learn “mas inglés.” I am tutoring/teaching English to Spanish speakers at El Sol COmmunity…
read more »It was my first time having a substitute in my room; early September, and I still was on the semi “trusting” side with my students. When I returned the next day, everything in my room was fine except one thing: an amethyst rock I kept on my desk was missing. Now, this rock was not…
read more »Amidst the pressure that is mounting as the FCAT is looming, I’ve had absolutely NO time to think about blogging. This little tidbit, however, was too good to file away in my memory box in hopes that it would be written about later… In September, which seems like years ago at this point, I very…
read more »1. Student falls asleep in class (of course not as a result of bad instruction, simply the lack of sleep at home) 2. Teacher tells the class to be verrrry quiet 3. Teacher grabs the desk of the sleeping student 4. Teacher begins to violently shake the desk while yelling “EARTHQUAKE!” thus waking the sleeping…
read more »I won’t Learn From You and Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment by Herbert Kohl was recommended to me by TFA. Like the other books they recommended, I requested it from the Library. I got it in today and began reading it as part of the strategy to study for the certification exam. I thought it…
read more »This call was all about certification and testing. We went over a “certification overview” as well as discussed the next steps that we will be taking. For certification in the state of Texas, you can get a preliminary certification for one year after passing the content exam (see previous post). In addition, you must have…
read more »So it is official as of 4:10:39 pm CST today that I applied or alternative certification program in Texas. **happy dance around my room** I find it some how fitting that I submit this application on the first day of my final semester in college. It seems to bring everything out full circle. Ending one…
read more »I just finished registering with TFA’s 20th Anniversary Summit in Washington, D.C on Feb 11-13, 2011. I am super excited I will get to meet new, current, and former Corp Members as well as staff and posisbly the founder, Wendy Kopp. I will arrive on Thursday Feb 10 in the late afternoon after a flight…
read more »12/8/2010 Just participated in the first transition conference call and I think I know why I was picked for RGV. They stressed in their 2015 vision that graduating from high school should be the floor- that we are striving for something more than just that. We are looking for a way to push them to…
read more »
