Bulletin Board for Mr.Kawaihae

I did my bulletin board for Mr.Kawaihae. He wanted the theme to be on Medieval Times. At first I didn't think I could make a creative background and that it would only be information, but as I was looking at pictures on the internet, I found a picture of a castle and thought it would be a good idea to do one out of aluminum foil. After that, I got a time line and a few pictures of artifacts that I could put on there to be interesting.

Altogether, this project was fairly easy and fun to do.

Week #8

This week I learned what it was like to create a lesson plans. I thought teachers would have a free range and they would be able to do whatever they wanted. But in some cases you have to follow that the state wants you to, which puts pressure on teachers and takes away some of their teaching methods and styles.

Also, This week I learned how much is sucks to procrastinate. I had a big project due and waited till the last second to do it, so I'm going to try and work on that as a student. Also, now that I'm getting into harder history classes, I'm going to need to study a bit more.

Week #7

This week in class we chose a teacher to do a bulletin board for. I chose to do Mr.Kawaihae, thinking he would be a fun teacher to work for and he would choose something easy to put up. When I went to go talk to him though, he wanted me to do Medieval stuff, which I absolutely know nothing about.

I also learned that I HATE substitute teachers. All they do is give us busy work and we learn absolutely nothing while they are here. Even though they let us break the rules and whatnot, it's still a boring way to spend the week.

This week...

This week I was really thinking about how teachers affect our lives. Though we can sit and talk about how much we hate being in class, and how we'd rather be off doing better things with our friends or family.

Two years ago, my band director, Mr.Hawks passed away. I never really thought about how much I cherished having them there and helping me. When he died, it hit me hard as I didn't see it coming and I couldn't go back to tell him how valuable in my life.

Now when I have teachers that I really have a connection with, I make sure to let them know that they mean something to us. Maybe if we all told Mr.Hawks how much of an inspiration he was to us, he would still be alive today. It's something that I think about all the time.

I don't know if this is something "I learned this week" but it's something I definitely became aware of.

What I learned this week about Education...

This week I learned about how valuable teachers can be when it comes to learning. For Spanish 1, we have a substitute and all she does is give us work that's too hard for us and busy work. Before, when we had our teacher, I actually felt like I was learning something. Now I feel as though I'm behind as every one else and Spanish 2 is going to be hard for me next year.

I also am learning how to cope with the different teaching methods. Although I still fall asleep in class sometimes, I'm learning that if you make a way to make jokes out of the teachers sometimes, you seem to understand what they're saying a little bit more.

Off of the blog I'm subscribed too, I've started researching different requirements I'm going to need to become a Band Director.