Okay, summer vacation – not much happening on the blog front, obviously. I went home for a couple weeks, saw some old students, came back, and have been working ever since.
Working at what? My two summer jobs: office assistant for my master’s degree program, and collaborating with one of my professors on several projects related to best teaching practices for science and mathematics. (Watch for them soon at DeafEd.net!)
The latter has led to beginning my master’s project well ahead of schedule. I (with the help of two professors) am developing a 30-45 minute lesson introducing the use of discovery-based learning in mathematics. We’ll use this lesson to test out Ectus MEDIA software, which the people at DeafEd.net are considering using for various “online learning” opportunities.
But that’s all old news now. The big news is that I have a part-time teaching job at the same school for the deaf that I student taught at last fall! Just two classes, but one of them is a group I worked with during student teaching.
I still have a full load of classes (16 credits) during fall quarter, but I’m sure I can manage. Compared to teaching 200 junior high students in 7 classes a day with no prep period, while serving as department chair, MathCounts coach, and after-school tutor lab supervisor … 4 graduate classes while teaching 2 high school math classes doesn’t seem like a big deal.
(Watch this space to see if I eat my words in a few weeks…)
At any rate, the craziness will only be until Thanksgiving, when fall quarter ends. Winter quarter will have one seminar that meets three times before Christmas, then this job will count for my second student teaching. Spring quarter I’ll have two more classes to take, but they’ll be on Tuesday and Thursday – the two days that I don’t work at the school!
Am I the only one of my friends who’s actually excited for school to start up again?
Monday, August 22, 2005
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