I am taking this stupid reading comp class for my teaching certification. Not that reading comp is stupid, but this one is. I am not sure if it is the set up of the online class or the Maya Angelou wannabe teacher. This explains why I woke up at 4 am this morning sweating this course. I haven't posted in a while, so why not vent, I say.
I teach AP/IB and Honors science classes, so I fail to see how I can use phonics and fluency activities in my class. Honestly, if they are decoding and stumbling over words, they are in the wrong place. When the instructions how would you implement these activities in your learning environment, my honest response is I won't. The instructor would like for me to make something up to show that I have read the module. From her responses, I am not sure she has read the module. Or maybe, we just don't understand each other. She is probably a former elementary teacher (take no offense my friends that teach elementary) and our approaches are, and should be, very different. I don't think I have ever been so glad for a class to be over. Considering I took Organic Chemistry more than once, that is quite a statement.
Ok, off my rant. This school year is off to a great start. I am teaching 3 different classes, which means 3 preps, which means I have more to do than I have time. Krista is also taking Biology online. Fortunately it is following the same sequence so I can use some of the same things with her that my students are doing. Unfortunately, her Algebra II is not so easy. I guess you can say that is another prep.
Briana is settled and doing well at Liberty. Andrea has had a change in plans, she is finishing her AA at FSCJ. This will be completed in December. She has applied to a few colleges, so we will see where she will be in January. Jo will have her AA in June. Kris will hopefully finish 10th grade and maybe make it to the state tennis tournament.
Saturday is the annual Marine Corps half marathon. I am as prepared as I am going to be. I am so tired of running in the heat.
Well we are updated. Have a great day!!!!
