WEEK 9 ASSIGNMENT

ACCESS DISTANT LEARNING

In the ACCESS program, students will be able to take extra classes online to go along with their current courses taken in high school. This program offers the honor/A.P. students a chance to also earn some college credits while still in high school. This program has the potential to be really great for those students being able to use it. In that they will be able to take more classes in high school that they would not have taken without this program.

Even though the students will be using this program at home, they will still have help from advisors via the internet. There are support systems in place from the University of Alabama, Troy University, and various school sytems around the state. One of the state board of education's goals fr this program was to have it in place by 2010. This has not happened and they are only at 174 schools out of the 300 some odd high schools in the state of Alabama, with only one of those schools being in the Mobile area region. This is something the school boards need to work hard on beacuse this is a great program and all students deserve to use it.

COMMENTS FOR KIDS WEEK 9

This week I got to comment on Mrs. Yollis's class blog about circles! They looked like they had alot of fun learning how to dram them outside. These were third graders learning the geometry side about circles, not just the simple: circlesd are round and have no corners. They were learning about radius, diameter, cocentric circles, I mean come on I learned most of that stuff in Middle school not third grade!! It continues to amaze me that students start to learn things earlier and earlier in school these days.

WEEK 8 ASSIGNMENTS

ANDY PAUSCH'S LAST LECTURE

This was amazing!! What else is there to say? This last lecture touched on alot of important things that everyone should know! One of my favorite topics he Dr. Pausch talked about was the headfake! I am preparing not only to be a teacher now, but to also be a coach. One of the things that has always been apart of my goals while I am coaching was to not only instill great athletics lessons, but to mainly instill great life lessons. I know that it works too, because the headfake method worked on me! Dr. Pausch had some pretty cool chilhood dreams, and the fact that he accomplished all of them but one is incredible. I hope to make all of my goals come true too, but i think my playing for an Olympic gold medal is out of the question these days. I really liked the part where Andy compared teaching to being a salesman of education. I never thought to look at teaching this way! In a way it is totally true because, we will try day in and day out for these kids to buy into our lessons and methods that it will help them in the future! So now I am going to add to my list that I will be a great saleswoman of education!

COMMENTS FOR KIDS WEEK 8

This past week I read a poem by Michala. She did a poem about friends friends where it said that you should always be able to depend on your friends! Such amazing insight in a middle school-er!! wow!