Teacher Panel

I thought having teachers come in and speak was great. Although i knew two of them very well they had a lot of good things to say. I took more from the point of what to do the next 2 years of school and student teaching then from what they do in schools. I thought the technology change was just insane, since i have been out of school and that has been only for a year and half. I cant even begin to think of what it will be like when i enter the teaching world. I thought the most interesting thing they talked about is that you need to be organized. Organization makes a class period go smooth. If I look like i am organized the kids will also give more respect because they know that I have a grip on what is going on. The little tid bits they offered were beneficial more so because it is things that i don't always think about. I also liked the way that Jim asked questions from chapter 2 to the teachers and it really makes me think of the big picture. It also made chapter two much more clear. I enjoyed having the teacher panel and I will take the important information and just go from there in my journey into the teaching world.

Paper Clips

The movie paper clips is a very influential and interesting movie. I thought it was really neat idea that they had come up with to help themselves learn about such a touchy and horrifying event in history. They turned it into a helping cause with creating a goal. The goal was to represent all six million Jews that had been killed in the Holocaust. The way they did that was by collecting paper clips, six million of them and they were the representation of each of the casualties. It was a task that went on over a couple of years. The small Tennessee school made it all the way to the top as they showed up on national television. They received many letters of stories and thank yous from many survivors and people that were involved in the Holocaust. You might be wondering how they learned all the history and facts of the holocaust. The kids got first hand experience as survivors from all over came all the way to the middle of nowhere Tennessee. It is a great story and was a great experience for for the kids.