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I suddenly feel lucky that I went to a high school where being academically inclined and interested in extracurriculars other than sports was normal and encouraged. My mentor teacher advises the Debate Club, which formed a year or two ago. This is a thirty year old high school! She then told me that they only get a little time during the school day to meet, and afterschool activities conflict with sports. Is everyone involved in sports somehow here? Weird.
The biggest and most famous competitive teams at my high school were (pretty much in order) the Mock Trial, badminton, tennis, and golf. There were also many other academic competitive teams like Odyssey of the Mind (my baby), Model OAS, Debate, It's Academic, and Math League. My high school was pretty special, I guess. (And a publlic school, in case you thought not.)
So, I feel thankful that I ended up at the high school were all the cool kids were a little nerdy. (Not that I was a cool kid. Usually the cool kids did sports and at least one academic extracurricular. My extracurriculars were OM, band, the Earth Awarness club, some other stuff, and the Scrabble Club. We got together on Fridays to play Scrabble. I was the President as a senior.)
I like that bumper sticker: Talk Nerdy To Me. But then, I also like the one that says: Entropy was just a concept--
until I got a cat! Ha ha ha! :P
So, I worked out a schedule with my mentor teacher, and my schedule won't be as bad as I originally thought, but I still have 15 graduate credits and two days of student teaching per week. We decided on Monday and Thursday, since I have classes during the day on Tuesday and Wednesday. So, I get Fridays off
All the teachers (and students/parents) have been very friendly, and I've met a number of Towson MAT grads that work there, not suprisingly, since a lot of them intern there. My impressions are similar to what I thought before coming here--probably too conservative and not diverse enough to interest me in the long term. However, since it is a small school system, teachers get quite a lot of autonomy (especially in subjects with no standardized assessment, and even quite a lot in those). That would be nice, but I've been hearing stories, especially about censorship (and my impressions of the extracurriculars reflecting the student and community interests) that make me want to not apply there so far.
The biggest and most famous competitive teams at my high school were (pretty much in order) the Mock Trial, badminton, tennis, and golf. There were also many other academic competitive teams like Odyssey of the Mind (my baby), Model OAS, Debate, It's Academic, and Math League. My high school was pretty special, I guess. (And a publlic school, in case you thought not.)
So, I feel thankful that I ended up at the high school were all the cool kids were a little nerdy. (Not that I was a cool kid. Usually the cool kids did sports and at least one academic extracurricular. My extracurriculars were OM, band, the Earth Awarness club, some other stuff, and the Scrabble Club. We got together on Fridays to play Scrabble. I was the President as a senior.)
I like that bumper sticker: Talk Nerdy To Me. But then, I also like the one that says: Entropy was just a concept--
until I got a cat! Ha ha ha! :P
So, I worked out a schedule with my mentor teacher, and my schedule won't be as bad as I originally thought, but I still have 15 graduate credits and two days of student teaching per week. We decided on Monday and Thursday, since I have classes during the day on Tuesday and Wednesday. So, I get Fridays off
All the teachers (and students/parents) have been very friendly, and I've met a number of Towson MAT grads that work there, not suprisingly, since a lot of them intern there. My impressions are similar to what I thought before coming here--probably too conservative and not diverse enough to interest me in the long term. However, since it is a small school system, teachers get quite a lot of autonomy (especially in subjects with no standardized assessment, and even quite a lot in those). That would be nice, but I've been hearing stories, especially about censorship (and my impressions of the extracurriculars reflecting the student and community interests) that make me want to not apply there so far.