happy one day till eugene's birthday day!
i don't know why i made that my subject line. he won't ever get to appreciate it...
so class today was almost painless, and (dare i say it?) almost enjoyable. The first two hours or so were kind of slow, but that was expected. we learned yet again about how to praise children without actually praising them. I feel like descriptive praise is just no fun. Everyone loves to hear they did a good job whether it comes from an adult or not. I love it when students tell me they liked my lesson, but I don't necessarily NEED to hear it from them. In fact, if a student came up to me and was like, "Wow, you met all of your objectives!" I might actually get a little pissed. For those of you non-education majors, descriptive praise is when you don't tell a student he or she did a nice job on his or her work, but you choose some aspect of it to bring to light, (such as You used capital letters in all the right places! or You used so many pretty colors). From this, the child is supposed to deduct that it's good. I feel like it's kind of cold. Anyway,
We also did KidsBridge today, which was a lot of fun. I had to narrate my "Name that Stereotype" game show because the closed captioning went too quickly for the students to read. I put tons of enthusiasm in all of my reading too because that just makes it more fun. The closed captioning does go really fast though, I was like out of breath by the end of some of them. Professor Ponting came up to me in the middle and said one of their teachers told him they were really impressed with my enthusiasm and were really glad I was making sure they understood everything. While I don't entirely agree that I was making sure everything was understood, I'm not about to pass up a compliment. Yay enthusiasm (take that, galen...).
I even let myself take a nap today which is unprecedented for the middle of the week, but I had nothing else to work on (which is also unprecedented), so why not? I just hope i'm able to fall asleep tonight. shouldn't be too much of a problem since jpe leaves me perpetually exhausted everyday of my life.
Oh, and we might be hosting a birthday party for eugene on friday. Daniella mentioned it a couple of days ago. I think it might be a lot of fun. Hopefully she decides to invite some of eugene's friends instead of being like here's your party with all of MY friends...because that would be less fun. I'm excited to give eugene his birthday gifts. I love how both of the games we bought him have vulgar titles, and we want to play more than anything else, and we'll have worked with 6 year olds all day the day of the party. it just seems...i don't know the word...but after working with kids all day, drinking just seems that much more wrong. I think I have a conscience issue.
oh, speaking of working with children, if anyone would like to be taught how to tell time using the second hand on a clock, please see me. I would like to practice teaching my lesson. I'm so glad i'm not studying to be a brain surgeon or something. "Would anyone mind if i practiced neurosurgery on them? Anyone? Anyone?" Somehow I don't think you'd get many takers...
so class today was almost painless, and (dare i say it?) almost enjoyable. The first two hours or so were kind of slow, but that was expected. we learned yet again about how to praise children without actually praising them. I feel like descriptive praise is just no fun. Everyone loves to hear they did a good job whether it comes from an adult or not. I love it when students tell me they liked my lesson, but I don't necessarily NEED to hear it from them. In fact, if a student came up to me and was like, "Wow, you met all of your objectives!" I might actually get a little pissed. For those of you non-education majors, descriptive praise is when you don't tell a student he or she did a nice job on his or her work, but you choose some aspect of it to bring to light, (such as You used capital letters in all the right places! or You used so many pretty colors). From this, the child is supposed to deduct that it's good. I feel like it's kind of cold. Anyway,
We also did KidsBridge today, which was a lot of fun. I had to narrate my "Name that Stereotype" game show because the closed captioning went too quickly for the students to read. I put tons of enthusiasm in all of my reading too because that just makes it more fun. The closed captioning does go really fast though, I was like out of breath by the end of some of them. Professor Ponting came up to me in the middle and said one of their teachers told him they were really impressed with my enthusiasm and were really glad I was making sure they understood everything. While I don't entirely agree that I was making sure everything was understood, I'm not about to pass up a compliment. Yay enthusiasm (take that, galen...).
I even let myself take a nap today which is unprecedented for the middle of the week, but I had nothing else to work on (which is also unprecedented), so why not? I just hope i'm able to fall asleep tonight. shouldn't be too much of a problem since jpe leaves me perpetually exhausted everyday of my life.
Oh, and we might be hosting a birthday party for eugene on friday. Daniella mentioned it a couple of days ago. I think it might be a lot of fun. Hopefully she decides to invite some of eugene's friends instead of being like here's your party with all of MY friends...because that would be less fun. I'm excited to give eugene his birthday gifts. I love how both of the games we bought him have vulgar titles, and we want to play more than anything else, and we'll have worked with 6 year olds all day the day of the party. it just seems...i don't know the word...but after working with kids all day, drinking just seems that much more wrong. I think I have a conscience issue.
oh, speaking of working with children, if anyone would like to be taught how to tell time using the second hand on a clock, please see me. I would like to practice teaching my lesson. I'm so glad i'm not studying to be a brain surgeon or something. "Would anyone mind if i practiced neurosurgery on them? Anyone? Anyone?" Somehow I don't think you'd get many takers...