What a week. Actually more just thursday.
Last thursday the Faculty of Education program at Brandon University hosted it's annual career fair. This was a great chance for us meet with prospective employers and make some valuable first impressions. Reality then kind of set in when I realized that after we graduate we have to enter the competitive job hunt, which I sometimes view as something along the lines of the hunger games mixed with a pride of lions taking down a gazelle.
However, I did not have a great amount of time to reflect on the career fair because not soon after we had John Finch (a tech guru who works for Manitoba Education and Advanced Learning) come in to our Internet for Educators class and discuss various questions or concerns we as future teachers had when it comes to using technology. He literally just said "Ok, what do you guys want to talk about?" and it didn't take long to get the ball rolling and from there the 2 hours seemed to fly by. We talked about many concerns but the one that a lot of us seemed to agree with was using student inquiry as a regular method of teaching rather than lecturing and notes, so it was good to see Mike and John share a similar view.
For the sports fans out there, the Seattle Seahawks defence absolutely dominated the Denver Broncos number one offence. I was glad to see the Seahawks win but for the sake of it being the Superbowl I wish it was closer. What I think was lost in the score is that Peyton Manning actually set a Superbowl record by completing 33 passes, passing arguably two of the best QB's in the game today, Tom Brady and Drew Brees. This stat would have to leave you wondering how he even had a chance to throw the ball in a blowout game like that, in fact I think this record went unnoticed by a lot of people.
That's it for this one!
"We talked about many concerns but the one that a lot of us seemed to agree with was using student inquiry as a regular method of teaching rather than lecturing and notes, so it was good to see Mike and John share a similar view."
ReplyDeleteIt was really nice to see and hear that, I felt the same way Brittany explained she did during her placements.
I was also glad to talk about inquiry based teaching in class, since it seems like it is something we are told to do, but don't always have the support to implement it. It was great to hear the support for it, since I know that many of us have been discouraged in our student teaching, since it is not the traditional lesson people want to see.
ReplyDeleteAlso, love the comment about the job hunt, it is very...poetic.