The Michie Compilation

As I prepare to consider my options once I finish at Augsburg, I know that if I stay in the midwest, I will be heading back to Des Plaines. No matter how much I like the idea of some how getting a position (one is opening up) in the social studies department at Maine West High School, where I could bike to school every day, the reality might not be as possible as I want. I know that over the last semester I have begun to prepare myself for teaching in an 'urban' or as Emdin would call it 'neoindigenous' school. Gregory Michie has been one of the many tools that has been useful in preparing for this. Below are a collection of my responses to Michie's Chapters that we read for class.

(excerpt from my response on chapter 5-6)

In this class I have been able to relate to readings from classes I have taken in the past, like my Islam in America class. That has created mental maps that keep the information I learned here ingrained in my mind. 

 

(excerpt from my response on chapter 5-6)

I just found out that Augsburg uses a co-teaching model for student teachers, oh how I wish I had known that before I went to meet with Mr.Nohel from South High School. This excerpt reminds me of how far away I thought the prospect of co-teaching was, compared the the reality that now it is only a month away. 

(excerpt from my response on chapter 1-2)

Gregory Krueger will continue to be a mentor and an example to me of the kid of teacher I would like to be. He might have taught kindergarten, but he has more insight and applicable ideas about young adult minds than I have found in entire schools that I have worked in.

(excerpt from my response on chapter 3)

In another class I have been learning about Universal design, coupled with the readings I have done in your class it reinforces the idea that I need to continue to remind myself that people of all ability levels are sitting in out classroom, regardless of whether their strengths and weaknesses have been identifies yet, it is my job to connect and identify as the year goes on. 

(excerpt from my response on chapter 7-8)

The readings in this class along with my field experience at Augsburg Fairview Academy has continued to make me question how our society works. These girls, are so young and have so much potential that I can see in the classroom but many in our society only see them as future welfare queens. THIS MAKES ME SO FRUSTRATED! (which is good thats the goal of the class)

(excerpt from my response on chapter 7-8)

While leaving Augsburg Fairview Academy I knew that I was leaving many students in a state of stagnation, which is sad but it happens, and we cannot always shield ourselves from this disappointment. I will always hope for students to succeed, but when they do not in academics I cannot give up hope that they will find another way. These students are young, they have time for mistakes and different routes to learn in different ways than I did or than society expects them too.