You're teaching them with a specific software, written for the subject?
Geometer's Sketchpad. Which is really cool, but could use a little more user-friendliness. I think. Now that I've started poking around, I sort of wish I could have them use [link] which is WICKED COOL and also gives you assignments of things to do and only a couple commands, and will help you if you're not sure what to do. Geometer's Sketchpad has a huge number of menu options, and I think that's daunting at first glance. But it'll be interesting.
Hang in there, Emily. It's never as hard as it is when you're student teaching.
Oh thank God. I just wish my cooperating teacher could be more with the direct criticism and less with the Socratic method. When he says, "So what was the main principle you wanted them to take away? What would you do differently next time?" I know they're important questions, but I keep feeling like there's a right answer and I don't know it, and I want to say, "Just tell me what I did wrong already!"
I have to run out - have a good rest-of-the-weekend, with a special wish with cookies and glitter because you lost an hour of it.
When he says, "So what was the main principle you wanted them to take away? What would you do differently next time?" I know they're important questions, but I keep feeling like there's a right answer and I don't know it, and I want to say, "Just tell me what I did wrong already!"
Ooh, that's so irksome! I have a teacher this semester who keeps making us do group process things, and refusing to give us information I know he has, and we could use. Because we're supposed to automagically figure it out, or some shit.
I have slept a ridiculous amount every night this week. While I'm grateful to have to luxury to do it, it's getting kind of annoying -- I should be over the trip, already! Next week I go back to setting the alarm.
Did everyone* remember to turn their clocks forward?
I totally forgot and didn't realize until 11:30 (it was 12:30). I feel extra jipped!
I need to report that I am totally making MS Office my bitch, reformatting my little pie charts to fit inside my paragraphs of text. Oh pie charts, how I love you.
Of course, I should be writing about the book research I did, but it all has to get done eventually, right? Right.
I was still awake at 2:00 this morning, so I changed all the clocks then.
Yay for making MS Office your bitch!
I decided that if I didn't get up and moving right away, I would never leave the house, so I've been to the atm, breakfast, the farmer's market, Draeger's, Target, the parking lot of the lamp store that didn't open until 1:00 on Sundays, and TJs. I've also cleaned out the refrigerator, put all of the many flowers I bought (TJS has their 99 cent daffodil bunches!) in vases, and tried unsucessfully to make copies of the Eyes DVDs.
I believe I shall rest for a bit now.
Enough with this index card crap, time to start writing some paper pages!
I have not gotten shit done yet today. Bleh. On the plus side, I'm having spanikopita from out of my freezer for lunch. Dinner? Whatever.
