Blog Due Friday, April 14

The March/April 2014 issue of  FEA's GO TEACH magazine features two teachers who describe what has attributed to their success in the classroom.  Respond to one.

FEA National Attendees:
TITLE:  Teacher of the Year
Read  National Teacher of the Year:  Jeff Charbonneau, on p. 30 in GO TEACH.   Discover what has inspired him to become a successful teacher.  Reflect on his responses by answering the following questions:

• What traits or characteristics conducive to teaching would you predict Mr. Charbonneau to possess?  Why would you make these guesses?
• Mr. Charbonneau will be addressing FEA members during one of the general sessions at the national conference?  What question(s) would you ask him, if given the opportunity?
• Mr. Charbonneau gives advice to future teachers in just six words.  I you could give advice to future EAT interns in six words, what would it be?
• It is the year 2030.  You have been teaching for 10+ years.  You have been selected as the National Teacher of the Year.  What would you reply when asked, "How do you help all students succeed in your classroom?"

Learn more about Mrs. Charbonneau from his address to the National Education Association in 2013.

All other EAT Interns:
TITLE:  Teaching With Hope

Read Teaching with Hope on p. 27 in Go TEACH.  Each of you has taken the Gallup StrengthsFinder instrument.  The Gallup organization does additional work in identifying factors that lead to success. A significant factor, identified through years of research, that leads to success is having hope.  Mary Hawkins-Jones, Gallup's first Most Hopeful Teacher in America, writes about experiences that shaped her career.


Read more about Hawkins-Jones, then reflect on her personal story as you answer the following questions:

• Share a school experience about a time when you received hope or became hopeful.  Be descript and provide details.
• Have you been able to pass hope to your students in your field site classroom?  If so, how?  If not, why?
• Ms. Hawkins-Jones discusses building positive relationships with students.  How are relationships and hope linked together?
• What specific activity will you do in your future classroom to help your students set goals?  Describe thoroughly.

Read more about hope:

Montgomery Counting Measuring "Hope" to Help Improve Academic Success in Schools

Searching for the Most Hopeful Teacher in America

Blog Due Friday, March 21, 2014

Title:  Getting Along With Your Roommate

As juniors and seniors, you will be attending college in the near future.  You've made decisions regarding your choice of a major, and you will attend a summer orientation to register for classes.  In addition, you've had to think about housing arrangements while you attend college.  Some of you will be moving into college dormitories, some will move into apartments, and some will remain at home as you begin a new chapter of your life.  

As you learn to manage the new challenges of college academics, new living arrangements can present additional challenges that you may not anticipate.  It may be the first time you have had to share a room with someone, as well as manage your money, prepare some or all of your meals, and be totally responsible for tasks such as laundry, cleaning, etc.

Read the article by Kaitlyn Preies, Life 101:  Getting Along With Your Roommate, which can be found in the January/February Go Teach magazine.  Think about her advice.  Many friends decide to live together when they go off to college.  Their relationships are tested when they are placed in the same living quarters.  With Kaitlyn's advice in mind, what will you keep foremost in your mind so that you will have a successful living arrangement?

Your assignment:  Identify three main points which YOU think are necessary to keep in mind when living with a roommate!  What will keep your relationship harmonious?  Be sure to embellish you points with explanations, examples, anecdotes, or testimonials.  

The blog rubric will be used to grade this assignment.  Remember, you must include 3 different media resources.