Geography

So I just now realized that I had completely forgotten about last week's blog. My bad. Geography... where do I begin? I like it. I think it's interesting. I only remember having 2 Geography classes: one in 8th grade, and one my first semester of college. It's very interesting learning about everything around us. I like maps. I enjoy looking at maps and learning new things about different areas. I have a pretty good sense of direction, so I prefer maps over a GPS. I never really realized how bad some of the projections of the world were. The one's Dr. Meier showed in class amazed me.

Monday's Activity

The play activity we did in class on Monday was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it! Even though in a classroom with younger children it would be best to take more time to prepare, I really enjoyed doing it spur of the moment in our class. I thought that it made it more entertaining and funny. It also gave me a clearer picture of what actually happened during those two events. It broke things down into something simple and fun. I want to do activities like this in my classroom. I just hope that I have a chance. In Happy Valley, they have zero time for anything other than lecture and worksheets because of testing. I hope it is not like this in every classroom and school. I want to be able to make my class a great learning experience for my students.

Critical Voice

In the article Critical voices, I did not like how John sent Jenni to the library so that he could teach the lesson. He felt uncomfortable for no good reason at all. I think that he felt threatened by the way Jenni taught the lesson. Like he was afraid that the students would like her better or something. Maybe he was afraid that she would out teach him take his job? Either way, he handled this in an awful way. Why send her to the library? There was no point in this whatsoever. Students learn differently. Some of his students could have been really learning from her lesson and the way he teaches could hold the students back. It is important to present material in different ways to reach out to the different learning styles of the students.