Personal Learning 3

For my third personal learning experience I decided to eat lunch with Ben Adu Owusu, a international student from Ghana. At lunch we talked about the transition to Luther. Ben said it hardest part was leaving his family and not being able to go home on Holidays. He said Luther is great as far as having many people that are from Ghana, which made his transition alot easier.

Teaching Mrs. Tingle Review

I chose this movie to do a review about because I think it demonstates student teacher relationships. Mrs. Tingle is a teacher that no one likes, especially Leigh Ann. Leigh Ann is also up to be valedictorian of her class and needs to be valedictorian in order to get a scholarship to Harvard University. However, Mrs. Tingle stands in her way. The students kid nap Mrs. Tingle when she threatens to turn them into the Principal for stealing her final exam.

Inservice Review

I decided for one of my reviews I would write about the Inservice that I attended at Cresco High School. The inservice dealt with each department breaking up into their own groups and talking about what they are teaching and what they want to teach next. My department (physical education) talked about the skills they are teaching from kindergarten to 12th grade. They make sure that they are progressively getting more motor skills as they get older.

Mr. Hollands Opus Review

I chose this movie to do a review because I believe it shows how someone who at first teaches as something to fall back on, then begins to love it. The movie is about a composer who takes a teaching job to pay the rent while, in his 'spare time composes one memorable piece of music to leave his mark on the world. As Holland discovers Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans' and as the years unfold the joy of sharing his contagious passion for music with his students becomes his new definition of success.

Dangerous Minds Review

The reason I chose to do this movie for a review is because it shows how a teacher can deal with kids at a school that are not motivated and are kids that many teachers have given up on. This is about a teacher that goes to an inner city school and at first struggles to connect with her students. However, by the end of the movie she has gained the respect of her students and made their lives better in the process.

Remember the Titans Review

Remember the Titans I believe was a great movie that also has connection with this class. The reason I say that it has connection with this class is that it talks about Diversity and how to deal with it on a team. This is something that every teacher has to deal with at some point or most teachers probably deal with it everyday in their classrooms.

Personal Learning Project 2

For my personal learning project 2 I decided to watch a video about the environment. I am not really a person who gets really involved in the environment and found the video somewhat boring. The video talk about Global Warming and how it affects and is going to affect us in the future. I got alot out of the video even though I was quite bored the whole way through it.