Jan 5-9 & 12-16, 2009 :: Kristen Smith :-)

Monday, Jan. 5, 2009~ It was a pretty exciting day as seniors because we all started talking about graduation. Today in class, we discussed the project/exam. We chose the topics that we wanted to create a brochure and presentation about. Mrs. Turner passed out some of our papers from the past couple of weeks for us to put in our folders. As always, we discussed the schedule for the week so that everyone knew what was going on.

Tuesday, Jan. 6~ Today we started our unit on high school. We discussed our reactions to articles we picked out to read. The articles had to tie into the curriculum on high school.

Wednesday, Jan. 7~ We started working on our projects. The computer lab is Mrs. Ward's room was open for our use.

Thursday, Jan. 8~ We reported to the auditorium to retake our teacher cadet picture. Then, we headed back to class to work on our projects.

Friday, Jan. 9~ We continued working on our projects.

Monday, Jan. 12~ Today was our last day to finish our projects and add all of our final touches. Some cadets also ran apples to the Teachers of the Month.

Tuesday, Jan. 13~ EXAM day! Our professor from Anderson University came to our class. We presented all of our brochures in about a 3 hour time frame!

***The rest of the week we had exams for our other classes. All stress was relieved when the week was over!***

*****Quote: "In order
for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen." David
Perkins*****

~I think this quote is very applicible to education. Students have to want to learn. They have to have that desire to absorb new information. As teachers, we need to help establish that desire by our passion for teaching, learning, and our subject. We want to have a passion that ignites the passions in others.