The Life of a Future Teacher

Because in order to teach writing, I must be a writer myself…

over a month? November 9, 2008

Filed under: Election, Experiment, Ghana, Teach for America, classes — learningtoteach @ 8:43 pm

oops. so much for updating this thing regularly!

some life updates…in no particular order:

-Teach for America: I’m thinking yes. Seriously. Chicago? Phoenix? Those are my two top choices at the moment. Total opposites, I know. It wouldn’t be until after my Master’s year though–so I have a little while to decide.

-Ghana: Also thinking yes. This summer. To teach literacy. To children and teachers. Amazing? I just have to find the money. That is the issue. I applied for a scholarship today. Hopefully it works.

-Classes: We did our experiment last week! We are testing the effect of flashcards/writing on learning a new language. Basically we had four groups–one studied a list of words, one wrote a list, one studied premade flashcards, and one wrote their own flashcards. I’m basically fluent in Zulu. As in, I know the animals. We haven’t run our data yet, but I’ll keep you updated! Maybe.

-Training for a Half Marathon: HA! The goal is May. 13.1 miles! Funny, I know. We’ll see.

-Election: No matter who I voted for, I am proud of our country and the democracy that  it is. I think this video is amazing.

-Life: is pretty much amazing :)