13
October
2008

Problem Solution Project0

After careful consideration, and this morning’s phone call from financial aid, I think that we should re-address the idea of looking at the UACM program as a focus for our PSP.

One of the most important ideas I took from the reading on Shabazz and his time at Atlanta University as a Mathematics scholar, researcher and professor, is that our power in life, as well as our legacies, come not only from what we directly impact, but from the ripples we leave in our wakes. Looking at what we love and at what we feel could be improved in this program is a rare opportunity to impact not only our own educational process, but also those processes of future teacher-candidates. Our list encompasses some very serious and profound problems, faced by many in the world. Yet, I continue to implore members of our cohort to “think globally, act locally.”

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13
October
2008

Refresher(s)0

I found last Wednesday’s class to be a refreshing return to the types of conversations that we enjoyed during May-mester. We need to continue to have these conversations, not just in Culture, Community and Schools, but in all of our courses because these conversations uncover and remind us of the reasons we decided to become teachers in the first place. Additionally, I think that these discussions will ease some of the frustrations we encounter in our student-teaching placements.

We need to be reminded, constantly, of the fact that we have the will and power to make educational reform more than just another “what if…” conversation by transforming our ideas into reality. We owe it to ourselves, our predecessors and, most importantly, to our students.

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