So it is back to school.
Back to my planner with its different colored highlighter-system (Yellow means homework, Green means due date, and any other color.... means whatever I darn well want it too! geez). It was time to sit down and re-label my paper binder-holder-whatever-you-call-it with update classes. Print out class schedule, and feel the relief when you learn that the $250 dollars you had to spare for school books was just right.
I am in two education classes this time, and it has opened my eyes to a few things already. You see I choose Elementary Ed. rather naturally, however the only personal experience I have as a student in elementary school goes UP to Kindergarten. Which I never really thought much about, until I hear my professors say things like: "remember when your teacher would..." and all I have to recall back on is... well... my mom. And its not like my mom had teaching strategies that went beyond the words printed on the text book's teacher's guide.
NOW! Before ANYONE gets the impression that I am denouncing my mom for homeschooling me, I want to say that she did a marvelous job. We are not in-apt from our previous education what so ever, and we owe that 100% to our mom. Well, maybe more like 80%, I did start school in school and graduated from school in school. But needless to say, Thank you mom :)
What I am trying to express here, is that I have a blank slate. I am this girl, going to college sitting on edge waiting to here some guidance on how you effectively teach. Part of me is scared that this will not be an advantage, that my naivety will give me false impressions and silly ideas. But possibly this "clean slate" idea is a benefit yet to be discovered.
This is a huge learning experience, a time in which I have to coach myself to not just sit back and get by but throw myself into it my education and get the most of it while I can. Decide for myself through trial and error what works and what does not.
Its just... really? 3 more years? How much does that stink?
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