Haha. Well Julia, I'm hoping that I do not DIE on the bridge of education. But I sure do feel the struggle that you guys have mentioned. For me, Zaher's class is the most disheartening because of the lack of solutions the reading and class discussion include. It seems like such a prevalent problem that people and the government should be creating solutions. But I feel like I've been rathered sheltered from all the happenings in the education system.
So far I have really enjoyed all the classes and the reading we have done. One thing that I really liked was the theories of childhood book in Zalika's class. I'm not sure if any of you are psych majors, but I just graduated with a psych degree... and that book is probably the most straight forward, simplest book that lays out the different theorists views.
These classes and reading has made me really anxious and excited about what I can do in the classroom. But most importantly I really like Zalika's class when we do the teacher vs. parents or teachers vs. school admin/board. I really enjoy that because I've never thought about how I'd go about dealing with angry or frustrated parents. But I think that it's really good that we get the practice now, so that we don't mess up when the situation really occurs. I especially enjoy practicing and getting feedback from Zalika and other people (especially from the parents in our cohort).
Lastly, I would like to say that I really value the feedback that we are able to give each other. Today when we were doing the science presentation, it really meant a lot to me when Andrea asked me if I had any feedback to give to her because she thought I had some good advice (and I never really thought of my advice being "good")And I would just like to extend that to all of you guys, I've really appreciated the feed back, experiences, and thoughts that you have been able to share with me. We all have such different backgrounds, it is really interesting to hear you're lens and how different all our education backgrounds are.