To Still a Mocking Crowd

November 29, 2012  Thursday Had another Navy dream.  Happily, they are getting rarer and more innocuous.  For years I had primarily two kinds of dreams.  I would either be frantically returning late for leave, or facing the dreary first day of another six month deployment. Increasingly common is the type I had last night: asking…

The Two O’Clock Show Begins in Five Minutes, Kids!

written August 7, 2011   The final education interview/review before beginning student teaching went well.  Like many of the other candidates I spent several days reviewing educational theories and my own past musings on the subject before last Tuesday, yet the actually interview was much more conversational in nature.  Either that, or simply being ultra-prepared…

Gaining Ownership of My Classroom

written August 11, 2011   I become a teacher on Monday, in four days. After attending an initial district assembly today in the high school auditorium (complete with a motivational YouTube montage) Sarah (Ms. Barber, my cooperating teacher) and I had some time to discuss the approaching semester.  She’s giving me freedom to do pretty much…