Difficulties of this Semester

This semester was a learning experience. I had to sign up for all my classes and figure out my loans by myself and the school wasnt the best of help. I called them everyday wondering about my information because some was needed and hadnt been recieved by them yet. In the end they said they still havnt recieved it and that it was okay they didnt need the information to give me my loans anyways, which was very aggravating. I learned to be on the office and to make sure my stuff is done and if it wasnt to keep calling until it is figure out.

Something else i have learned is that I am on the world team for karate. This means that in two years I will go to Calgary for the tournament. It is not the olympics but it is a big deal to me and everyone that is in the same karate as me. Since i am on the team i will have to start training a little bit more. I dont come that much anymore becuase i am at school and i need to study to get a good grade and karate is too time consuming. This bothers my instructors but i cant help it, I will not give up a good grade for going to class because its not like i get paid to be there and school is an investment in my future.

One of the hardest classes i have is chemistry. I learned that there is lower chemistry classes, but since i took chemistry in high school i got placed in chemistry 134 when i think i should have taken chem-100. This class is hard to grasp sometimes and i think it moves a little to fast for me, so i should have taken a lower level chem class first. I have gotten use to the pace a little but only becuase the chapters we are covering are easier to understand than the previous ones. They do not tie together yet. If i could go back i would have taken a lower level first, i dont care about the cost. i need go grades it doesnt matter how long it takes me to get there.

Picking sanity over Money

when it comes to Moffitt it is obvious why he left the N.F.L. He said he wasnt happy and that he felt his health was in danger. Can you imagine going threw a train crash every Sunday night, i mean i beleive him when he said his health was a factor. Being a line-man has got to have even more heath problems because all you have is guys bulldozing eachother down every time they hike the ball.

I would make this same descision if i had a physical injury and would never get better. I am a karate instructor and i think that i must be in some kind of shape to teach and if i was injured i would stop teaching. This idea can be applied to someone that works in landscaping, if a person can not pick up plants anymore or do the basics then he must quit his job, but a smart man would notice his back was starting to give out on him and quit before he had to have surgery on it.

If i was working towards a job for my entire life crazy thing would have to happen inorder for me to quit. For instance, if i had a family and my boss was forcing me to travel often and it was creating a strain in the houshold then i would have to quit my job. Another would be if i completely lost interest in it, i would be stratigic though, i would get an education for something else i wantto do then quit my job, the few years it takes to get there would be hard, but at least me or my family didnt have to finacially suffer. If i didnt like someone at my work place i would honestly put up with it, but if that person was making it to where i might loose my job i would try to be transferered instead of having it on my record as "doesnt play well with others" exspecially with how many organizations want people to be a "team player".

Teachers in Secondary Schools

When I was in highschool I encountered all types of teachers. Some were good while others were bad. my favorite teacher was an Environmental Science teacher Mr. Black. He was very interested in his work and was going for his masters the last i have talked to him. He always had interesting stories to tell us that related to the topics that we were talking about, but when it came down to teaching us the material he wasn't very good at it. He would just scratch the surface of every topic but never actually go into detail to where when i was taking the test i could even understand what the question was asking me. He was a cool guy but when it came to teaching he just didnt have it.

Another teacher i had Mrs. Farrell. She was honestly probably one of the smartest people i have ever met. We all joked that she knew everything because whenever someone asked her a question she knew the answer it didnt matter what it was about it could have been my Calc homework and she would understand it. When she was terribly known for was giving us a worksheet, having us read the directions and then expecting us to be able to know what to do. I think she was so smart and what we were doing was so basic to her that she didnt feel the need to explain it to us. 

A teacher that actually taught me something in highschool was Mrs. Thorington. She was my math teacher and she was a person with an agenda for sure. Sometimes she would have us go over 2 sections in one day, but honestly she explained everything very well and if we had questions she would sit there and explain it to us until we understood it. One thing she did do is assign a lot of homework, which i thought was terrible but it actually helped me. I think I got a B in her class but honestly if someone else taught it to me i probably would have gotten a C. 

When it comes to being a good teacher the person doesn't have to be the smartest person in the room they just have to be able to portray the knowledge to the students in a way that everyone understands which is difficult if you factor in the fact that everyone learns differently. If I knew someone that wanted to be a teacher i would suggest them to go to a place like Sylvan Learning Center and teacher to a small group of students so they can experiment on a smaller scale all the ways of teaching that help certain students and the technique that arent as successful so they know what they should and shouldnt do. Then by that time they will know if teaching is actually what they want to do.