I have a 15 page paper due on Thursday. I'm so stressed and worried about it that I'm worrying about the grade and not about writing the paper. I'm more concerned about the length than anything else. I dont know. I'm too worried to write about it. So I'm sitting here just writing on me blog. Killing time I guess.
Hey, if you havent seen Wall-E yet, you need to. That movie is awesome. Rattatoie, or whatever, sucked. Turned me off of Pixar, was sick of it. Was kind of dragged into Wall-E when it was in theaters, and I fell in love with it right away. Easily as good as Monster's Inc. and maybe as good as Toy Story. Wall-E is top notch.
What else? Picked up Eulalia, the latest Redwall book, from Brian Jaques. Love the series, have for a longed time, just starting, but it seems pretty good. A nice change of pace from DeLillo, that guy just gets old. He's not bad, dont get me wrong, he's just . . . thick I guess.
I'm putting off the paper tonight. Might take tomorrow off too. Get back into school on Monday. Start the old noodle going and pick it back up. Only 4000 more words before Thursday. Any ideas on DeLillo's use of groups in his prologue to Underworld and how the existance of one group can only be defined by its opposite, please share.
See ya all.
11/29/2008
11/26/2008
Student Teaching
Ok, it's been awhile, sorry but not much going on. Got a ton of crap to do, the more I do the more I realize how stupid it all is. It's almost done. I think this 15 page paper may be the death of me, but I'll fight through it or something.
I met my match-up for student teaching yesterday. I dont know. There's just so much. So much to do, so much to remember, so much everything. I'm totally excited and thrilled to finally get into a classroom. This other crap is bull. I just got to get through it. I dont know. This guy seems pretty cool. Smart, and defenitly trying to get onto that cutting edge of teaching dynamically. I'm not sure he's close to Mr. Martin, but he seems totally open and cool to letting me try some new stuff. I'm thinking I'm going to get some great experience, and if this guy says I'm good, he's got a ton of pull in the faculty. This guy is like a 20 year veteren, best in the district, at least that's what the vice principal said. So this could get a me a good chance at a job.
I did have a couple of problems. He's in charge of 5 classes. 2 AP language and Comp, and 3 Contemporary Literature. He cant really give me the AP classes. Not directly. It's not fair to the kids that have to take this class, and it's not fair to me, and he's taken classes to learn how to teach this class, a lot of little things, thant basically mean we're "team teaching" the class. That's cool, I can handle that no problem. The problem becomes that I get to take over for only one class. The contemporary literature class. I only have to prepare for one class. Preperation is one thing that a ton of people have gotten in trouble with, and it doesnt seem like I'm going to get that experience. That's a double edged sword. Easier now for the guy that's just starting off, but will it prepare me for when I have a bunch of different classes and no safety-net. I dont know, good and bad. He also basically said that the classes are mine. He never really told me all my book options, he gave me a few and was trying to give me ideas for ways to set up the lesson. His ideas are great, but I want to look at all of my options. I think this could be really cool, and I'm totally excited to try it out.
This is going to sound stupid, but I dont know what to ask. Questions take me time. The assistant principal pulls me in his office and asks what questions I have. I just asked, what do I need to know? I dont know what to ask, and I'm not sure what answers I should be looking for. I dont know, that sounds stupid, I just need to get in there and sink my teeth in. Sink or Swim, give it to me and lets do this thing. I dont know, just want to try it out, I want to give it my best shot and see how things go. I didnt have a safety net when I first coached. I went to the coaches meeting and the clinic, then I was thrown into a gym with 11 six-year-olds and was told to have fun. I dont know, I just need to get in there and out from behind the desk.
Back to the homework.
Later All.
I met my match-up for student teaching yesterday. I dont know. There's just so much. So much to do, so much to remember, so much everything. I'm totally excited and thrilled to finally get into a classroom. This other crap is bull. I just got to get through it. I dont know. This guy seems pretty cool. Smart, and defenitly trying to get onto that cutting edge of teaching dynamically. I'm not sure he's close to Mr. Martin, but he seems totally open and cool to letting me try some new stuff. I'm thinking I'm going to get some great experience, and if this guy says I'm good, he's got a ton of pull in the faculty. This guy is like a 20 year veteren, best in the district, at least that's what the vice principal said. So this could get a me a good chance at a job.
I did have a couple of problems. He's in charge of 5 classes. 2 AP language and Comp, and 3 Contemporary Literature. He cant really give me the AP classes. Not directly. It's not fair to the kids that have to take this class, and it's not fair to me, and he's taken classes to learn how to teach this class, a lot of little things, thant basically mean we're "team teaching" the class. That's cool, I can handle that no problem. The problem becomes that I get to take over for only one class. The contemporary literature class. I only have to prepare for one class. Preperation is one thing that a ton of people have gotten in trouble with, and it doesnt seem like I'm going to get that experience. That's a double edged sword. Easier now for the guy that's just starting off, but will it prepare me for when I have a bunch of different classes and no safety-net. I dont know, good and bad. He also basically said that the classes are mine. He never really told me all my book options, he gave me a few and was trying to give me ideas for ways to set up the lesson. His ideas are great, but I want to look at all of my options. I think this could be really cool, and I'm totally excited to try it out.
This is going to sound stupid, but I dont know what to ask. Questions take me time. The assistant principal pulls me in his office and asks what questions I have. I just asked, what do I need to know? I dont know what to ask, and I'm not sure what answers I should be looking for. I dont know, that sounds stupid, I just need to get in there and sink my teeth in. Sink or Swim, give it to me and lets do this thing. I dont know, just want to try it out, I want to give it my best shot and see how things go. I didnt have a safety net when I first coached. I went to the coaches meeting and the clinic, then I was thrown into a gym with 11 six-year-olds and was told to have fun. I dont know, I just need to get in there and out from behind the desk.
Back to the homework.
Later All.
11/18/2008
I am tired tonight. I'm not sure why, but today beat me with a stick. One day closer to break, that's all that matters. Not much going on, no desire to do anything.
Something interesting happened today though. My match-up teacher kicked a boy out of her room today. He wouldnt return to his seat, she gave him a token argument, then she kicked him out. Well, after he used a string of four letter words, including but not limited to "this class is fucking-bullshit." It bothers me that she picks that fight, she wants him out of her class. She has made that quite clear, and she's had repeated problems with him. I just dont get it. What was encouraging was how almost helpful the rest of the students were. I had one tense moment, when he walked by the teacher to get to the door. I sat just to her left and behind her, observing the class, and I had a flash in my mind of him taking a swing. That may sound stupid, but I was ready to move. He walked behind her, and she never even turned around, he just left. Nothing Happened. Let me make that clear, he didnt do anything, but that's where my mind went. I've been in a couple of tougher schools than this place, that's all. But the rest of the class was totally on the teacher's side. They completly agreed with her, and supported her. It was a tense couple of moments, and the rest of the class was totally supportative. It just surprised me. Kids amaze me everyday. From that first moment I started working with them (basketball coach) and they started shooting lay-ups just because I told them to. To the kid that finally picked-up a dictionary, the kids that are already working to go to college, the students that sat there and did their work just because I asked them to. They amaze me, day in and day out. That was cool.
Later all.
Something interesting happened today though. My match-up teacher kicked a boy out of her room today. He wouldnt return to his seat, she gave him a token argument, then she kicked him out. Well, after he used a string of four letter words, including but not limited to "this class is fucking-bullshit." It bothers me that she picks that fight, she wants him out of her class. She has made that quite clear, and she's had repeated problems with him. I just dont get it. What was encouraging was how almost helpful the rest of the students were. I had one tense moment, when he walked by the teacher to get to the door. I sat just to her left and behind her, observing the class, and I had a flash in my mind of him taking a swing. That may sound stupid, but I was ready to move. He walked behind her, and she never even turned around, he just left. Nothing Happened. Let me make that clear, he didnt do anything, but that's where my mind went. I've been in a couple of tougher schools than this place, that's all. But the rest of the class was totally on the teacher's side. They completly agreed with her, and supported her. It was a tense couple of moments, and the rest of the class was totally supportative. It just surprised me. Kids amaze me everyday. From that first moment I started working with them (basketball coach) and they started shooting lay-ups just because I told them to. To the kid that finally picked-up a dictionary, the kids that are already working to go to college, the students that sat there and did their work just because I asked them to. They amaze me, day in and day out. That was cool.
Later all.
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