Rant

My rant is dedicated to busy work assignments professors give us. I am too busy and too tired to spend so much time and put so much effort into something that I know they barely glance at to see if it's done, then just give us the points.

I would also like to rant about field assignments. I know professors say they don't explain them until the very last class before field because they don't want us to forget anything, but guess what, we are seniors in college. We can handle it. And when we know in advance we can actually *gasp* prepare ahead of time!

I would also like to rant about USBank. Which has nothing to do with this program, but is currently on my mind and irritating. If I deposit money into the account, then check my balance at an ATM, and make a withdrawal based on the money that the receipt told me I had, don't charge me overdraft charges because the deposit was still pending! If it is pending, then don't let me take money out. Obviously. Stupid national idiotic money monger anti-consumer anti-American banks. From now on I'll keep my money under a mattress.

Thanks Dr. Peterson for letting us rant, but this must be the most depressing assignment you've ever had to read! So I'll share a little bit of sunshine. It was supposed to snow the last two days and it didn't ! Hooray for wrong weather forecasts!!! :)

And I would also like to say I really look forward to differentiation on Thursday mornings. It always reminds me of why I want to be a teacher.

Fulfilling the Promise, Toolbox

The back of our book is full of wonderful resources for us to use in our classroom. The reason I say they are wonderful is because each one is made for differentiating, but can be used for any subject. I love this, because while differentiating in our classrooms is obviously ideal, it seems very daunting. But this is an awesome resource for making differentiating a little simpler, and thus something that seems more realistic. I love that several of the options left it up to the student what they wanted to choose. And I believe that for the most part children will pick the option that suits them best. They likely aren't going to pick something that is too hard for them, because the task will seem too huge, but they also won't pick something too easy, because it may seem less interesting than another option on their level. I love that every option is just as good, and just as appealing. And that suits every learning style.

Fulfilling the Promise, Chapter 7

This was the concluding chapter in our book, and it was very real. It told us teaching is hard, and even with all these high hopes for differentiated classrooms full of love for our students, that probably won't come so easily. It told about a man named McNulty, and the spaghetti sauce, or gravy his mother made. Try as he might, he couldn't make that gravy taste like his mother's. He discovered she made her's with love, and that is truly what made it so fantastic. "Things that cannot be written down happen when you lose yourself in your works." When we develop a passion for teaching, differentiation will come naturally. It really isn't something we can learn from reading a text book, or by watching someone else. It is something that will come as you really get to know each one of your students, and find a love for all of them.