Hi Everyone,
This is probably going to be one of the most exciting blogs that I get to write!
Student Teaching is going well. My classroom is moving along and I'm almost halfway done. It has been flying by! This past week we had a school Mass for Ash Wednesday which is so cool to be a part of. Just watching all of the students participate in Mass is awesome.
I did a couple of PowerPoint Presentations this week for each class. We covered everything from England after the Reformation to Elasticity to The House of Representatives. It's amazing how many different topics I get to cover.
Friday I had all of my civics class play a redistricting game on www.redistrictinggame.org which was a lot of fun. Most of my students enjoyed it. It was able to give them first hand experience of what it takes to redistrict a state after each census.
This week I have my coop's wife coming in to talk about politics. She is running for US Senate for PA and you can find out more about here at www.pegluksik.com It should be very interesting for all of my classes to hear her speak!
Finally and most importantly I am having to start figuring out where my life is headed next year. I have officially received my first job offer! Tim Perkin's who is the director of the Study Abroad in France, which I participated in, contacted me. He has offered me a job working as a Residence Director/Teaching Assistant/Travel Agent/Tour Guide/Etc. for the France program next year.
If I were to take this job I would leave around Labor Day. I would live there for the Fall Semester, come home for Christmas, then go over for the Spring Semester. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to be able to do that and it's something that I am taking into consideration. I would love to go back and to go back using my history skills would be even cooler!
Feel free to leave comments about what you think!
Talk to you soon,
John
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Snow Day Update
Hi All,
So Central PA has gotten hit with some more snow so today all schools were pretty much closed, including Bishop Carroll which is a huge plus! I needed a day to just sleep in a little bit.
Last week was Catholic Schools Week, so anyone who has ever been to or worked at a Catholic High School knows that CSW brings nothing but fun activities and lots of shortened classes (which is a big plus too). So we had Mass last Monday to kick off the week. It was very different from the way that BGA runs their Masses, but there was one major thing in common; you could tell that the community of BC was together as one family which, to me, is what Catholic Schools are all about.
Throughout the week there were other activities and a variety of dress down days. I was supposed to have gone to VA this past weekend, but due to the snow, the Lifeguard People canceled. So I went to school on Friday. BC doesn't do a Tournament of Champions type thing like BGA does, instead they have the SADD students do a Jeopardy Game. That morning I was asked to be a teacher in the competition, which was a huge honor, but in the back of my head all I could think about was like, "I don't know most of the school."
So that afternoon I got called up to participate and my Freshmen and Sophomores made signs and cheered me as I went up. So they must not hate my class! While playing Jeopardy, I didn't get to answer a single question! We came in 2nd place by 100 points, so all and all it was a good day.
This past Monday I played a review game with all of my classes in the style of "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader." All of my students seemed to enjoy it. Yesterday I gave them all a test and overall they did decently! We have a lot of exciting things coming up over the next couple of weeks, so I will make sure to come back and post pictures!
Hope everyone is doing well, talk to you soon,
John
So Central PA has gotten hit with some more snow so today all schools were pretty much closed, including Bishop Carroll which is a huge plus! I needed a day to just sleep in a little bit.
Last week was Catholic Schools Week, so anyone who has ever been to or worked at a Catholic High School knows that CSW brings nothing but fun activities and lots of shortened classes (which is a big plus too). So we had Mass last Monday to kick off the week. It was very different from the way that BGA runs their Masses, but there was one major thing in common; you could tell that the community of BC was together as one family which, to me, is what Catholic Schools are all about.
Throughout the week there were other activities and a variety of dress down days. I was supposed to have gone to VA this past weekend, but due to the snow, the Lifeguard People canceled. So I went to school on Friday. BC doesn't do a Tournament of Champions type thing like BGA does, instead they have the SADD students do a Jeopardy Game. That morning I was asked to be a teacher in the competition, which was a huge honor, but in the back of my head all I could think about was like, "I don't know most of the school."
So that afternoon I got called up to participate and my Freshmen and Sophomores made signs and cheered me as I went up. So they must not hate my class! While playing Jeopardy, I didn't get to answer a single question! We came in 2nd place by 100 points, so all and all it was a good day.
This past Monday I played a review game with all of my classes in the style of "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader." All of my students seemed to enjoy it. Yesterday I gave them all a test and overall they did decently! We have a lot of exciting things coming up over the next couple of weeks, so I will make sure to come back and post pictures!
Hope everyone is doing well, talk to you soon,
John
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