In school, I’ve always been in classes with 30+ students…in college many of my classes had 300+ kids. The classes I took for the Spanish major were a little better at having smaller class sizes…until they turned many of our upper-division Spanish classes into lecture courses, aka turning our previous 30 student class into a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘education’
August 27, 2009
education, music + process
1 1/2 years ago in Dave’s curiosity class, my term curiosity project was to learn all that I could about education systems over the course of ten weeks. Since then, and especially now that I have joined the education field, I’ve spent quite a bit of time thinking about education models. I won’t go into [...]
June 7, 2009
why grad. school isn’t in my future
I really began thinking/learning about our education system about a year in a half ago in my curiosity for strategists class. We were instructed to pick anything…a person, religion, idea, sports team, occupation, etc., learn about it for a term, and present our findings. I chose to investigate education systems + mainly focused on the [...]
May 30, 2009
s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g BEE.
I’m quite excited – I’m going to see Putnam County Spelling Bee tonight at the Hult. I really do love this show – I saw it a few times it came to Portland last and…why do I love it? Well, I learned how to spell a number of new words: acouchi, mohel, and syzygy. I [...]
April 25, 2009
my post-graduation plans…as of today
As graduation draws near, the question “So, what are you doing after graduation!” seems to be more and more common. Short story long, I recorded my plans for post graduation in the following video. Please note that these plans are subject to change and generally vary on a weekly basis. (and p.s. please ignore the [...]
January 4, 2009
Everything I learned in life, I learned from music: 1st impressions
Who knew that the most important life lessons and skills I have learned AND retained originated from my music education. It’s funny, or possibly more ironic that all the required speeches and presentations throughout middle and high school have had little to no influence on me. Well, unless I’m aiming to be completely unnatural and glued [...]
December 12, 2008
hairballs, creativity and bedbury
After the branding America workshop a few weeks back, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with a few fellow students, professors, and Scott Bedbury and Stu Redsun. At one point, we began discussing the Curiosity for Strategists class taught by Dave, which led me to discuss the term project – take something you are curious about, study [...]
December 5, 2008
a satirical perspective of public school math class
I recently rediscovered the blog a friend kept back in high school, mainly to express his satirical observations of a day in the life of the public school system. Brilliant writing and observations – here’s the first snippet: I gotta say, my math class….looking back on this year, and my many complaints toward that class, [...]
