Archive for October, 2006

Iraq War Lesson Plan

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Greetings,  Following is the lesson plan that I created to teach to my Miss Silverleaf’s class.  I tried to make it as unbiased as possible, in order to promote a fair creation of opinion on the account of the students.  If you are interested in the details, let me know.
Should we have started the Iraq [...]

Week 2 Observations

Friday, October 20th, 2006

Greetings,

This week, I had a couple of interesting things happen to me which I think should be made a note of.  The first was watching something Miss Silverleaf did, and the other was an event between a student at Peacebloom School and I.
First, on Tuesday, Miss Silverleaf talked with her 2nd hour class (9th [...]

Moral-Professional Dilemma

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Greetings,
I find myself in a most unusual circumstance.  Peacebloom School, where I am currently observing, was where my TE teacher, Brairthorn, taught for the past 4 years.  Miss Silverleaf and Brairthorn both know of each other, know that I am in relatively close contact with both of them, and their teaching styles could not be [...]

Critique of lesson plans

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Greetings,
What follows is my critique of a lesson plan that I printed out, but failed to note down the entire URL, meaning it has been lost to me to the big WWW.  Turned in for grading in October of 2006.
The lesson under analysis was created by a Mary Jane McReynolds, from a New Mexico school [...]

School vs. “Real Life”

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Greetings,
Although this happened a few weeks ago, I believe that it was an important discussion for me as my outlook on school changed somewhat significantly.  I had made a post where I referred school to “real life,” meaning what happens to students outside of school after graduation.
The grad student in charge of my TE 407 [...]

Cooperative learning assessment

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Greetings,
Today was my first serious observation of the Peacebloom High School with Miss Silverleaf. Out of the many things that I took note of, I would like to take notice of an assignment that Miss Silverleaf started in one of her classes.
Essentially she broke the class into two groups of roughly equal sizes, and assigned [...]

Cabin Time day.

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Greetings,
I had my “first” encounter with students today in Peacebloom School*. Yes, I had encounters with students before, thus it really isn’t my “first”, but it was the first time with students from this school, and under the tutelage of Miss Silverleaf*.
Today was a relatively unusual day, as it was “Cabin Time” day. The usual [...]