Teaching is not, not going to be interesting....

Soooooo,

4 weeks ago I began my foray into the teaching world, and I'm already glad I made the decision to go through with dropping a buttload (Brooke, 2006) of dough to drive 2 hours to the worst city ive ever driven through to spend 18 hours out of 36 in a classroom (that imbeded reference was just for practice, at D'Youville college (thats where I go (I love brackets)) they LOOOOOOVE APA style, they should marry it). On a side note, why we use the psychology style for writing papers on education is beyond me, that could be because I don't care about writing enough. Wow, that was incoherent, but im not going to fix it, since I'm not getting marked on it (that's kind of a teaching joke......but not a good one).

What I'm trying to get at here is, I like learning about this stuff, I like it a bit more than science (only because i like peoples opinions, and most of the time science is fact baed). I feel like in past four weeks my thoughts on the world and the inequalities that lie therein have developed emensley. I still have a long way to go, but i'm not much of a self reflector (I prefer to reflect on sports) so for me to recognize that must mean something is going right. I have also learned how to articulate my feelings and thoughts a bit better. When you are forced to reflect out loud about that the stuff that you read and hear about 45 times in 12 hours, you learn to express yourself properly, because if you don't, you will sound like a dummy. For example, I'm taking a class about content area literacy, which is being able to understand and use terms in a specific content area (math, biology, basketball, whatever). I never thought about it before, but now I think it's important. I mean how am i supposed to teach someone about biology if every time I say cell, they pull out their nokia and text me something like "lol i (l) u". Having realized this, I find myself already thing of ways I can help my students increase their biological literacy. That was boring example, but my point is I have learned a lot of interesting and relevant things (there are alot more personal discoveries I have made, but they are called personal discoveries for a reason).

Another thing I have enjoyed are my classemates. My classmates are cool. A few of them looooove to say not so smart things using big words in an attempt to impress someone (maybe the prof, maybe the blackboard, who knows). But generally they are all pretty cool. They have cool ideas, cool perspectives, they are fun, accepting, and complimentary. Now that I have said all this nice stuff about school, dont be alarmed when I spew out numerous posts on why they decided to give me so much work, that just the stress talking. The point is, I'm glad im going to be a teacher, im aware that it wont be easy as many of you think it will be, and im okay with that. THE END.

Love,

Leigh

p.s. that was alot of brackets.