School Update

So as most of you already know, I'm at U of M in their Education program. I'm in the sr stream with my teachables being phys ed and general science. I've been well "educated" by some good friends in second year about the workload that I will have to endure. A quick thanks to Eric, Trista, and Mark for showing me the ropes and making me feel cool for knowing some people outside of my cohort.

My Cohort is pretty cool. We are just starting to bond more. Between classes we'll hang out and chat at the tables or in our next classroom. We've had some presentations and seen some of the creativity that we have in the room. Last night was supposed to be an Ed Social at the new Area Night Club (the old OC) but since it was so busy, there were only 5 of us (that I saw) that got in. It would have been cool to have all of us there to hang outside of our school setting but the five of us had a great time ripping up the dance floor and hanging out. I think that we're going to plan another night where we can all go out together. The Limelight would be a good idea I think. I'd be interested to hear what people would sing.

The pic above shows the comments given to us by our psyc prof on our first big group presentation. We got an A for our role play and discussion of gender differences in schools. Props goes out to Rhianna, Jennifer, Rob, and Ashley. Everyone did a great job acting out our two scenes (a gym teacher getting his kids to do push ups and an English teacher handing out our graded papers) and we got a great discussion going on afterwards. Our Second presentation this week featured 4 out of the 5 of us teaching the rest of our class how to use Questioning in our teaching methods. We had another great presentation in which our teacher gave us some high praise. We're hoping that means that we'll be getting another A if not an A+ for our effort.

I have a great group and am pretty lucky to be working with them. For scheduling purposes, we've teamed up for pretty much all of our group presentations. We've done a pretty good job and spaced out our stuff to keep us from getting overwhelmed. This week was our hardest week with 2 presentations (along with 2 or 3 more assignments). Our group works really well together. Even though we meet early on most Tuesday and Thursdays (which are my days we should be sleeping in), we get quite a bit done and in efficient fashion. We are open to each others ideas and (even some of my crazy ones) let our work speak for itself. I know that each one of them will be great teachers. I've enjoyed learning from them as well as with them. More magic to come, stay tuned...