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More classes
Aug. 28th, 2006 10:29 pmI've had my first class session for Special Ed For General Ed Teachers, Psychological Foundations of Education, and Multicultural Foundations for Education.
Special Ed: This is a 3-unit seminar that meets only three times in brutal 9AM-4:30PM sessions with a working lunch. The dialect acquisition alone is overwhelming, especially where the PC terms don't line up with the semantics of how they are used. I'll probably blog about some of the neo-diction later. The professor is trying to recruit me to special ed. She's a deaf/HoH specialist, and her ASL is fantastic. I need to decide SOON to what extent I'm going to invest time to leverage the chance to brush up my ASL.
Psychological Foundations: Young Professor; I'm the oldest person in the class. I'm not sure how much depth they are going to manage, but I suppose I should expect that out of any class with "Foundations" in the title. THe teacher has a strong background in school violence management.
Multicultural Foundations: My adviser is the professor, and she seems prepared to go gritty on the subject material. The workload seems disproportionate with a lot of the other classes, especially in the volume of reading. I need to get ahead of this one. I'm looking forward to going overboard on this one, as the subject is so central. I also managed to draw the first book review/presentation of the term, so only three weeks out.
In summary, there is a LOT of opportunity to overcommit myself. Cool. Apologies in advance for when I say "I can't go to because I'm working on this paper." to you. I can already feel that coming even if I don't go obsessive about my projects. SJSU does a bad job of publishing reading lists in advance, so I have a bunch of book-buying to do on Wednesday.
Special Ed: This is a 3-unit seminar that meets only three times in brutal 9AM-4:30PM sessions with a working lunch. The dialect acquisition alone is overwhelming, especially where the PC terms don't line up with the semantics of how they are used. I'll probably blog about some of the neo-diction later. The professor is trying to recruit me to special ed. She's a deaf/HoH specialist, and her ASL is fantastic. I need to decide SOON to what extent I'm going to invest time to leverage the chance to brush up my ASL.
Psychological Foundations: Young Professor; I'm the oldest person in the class. I'm not sure how much depth they are going to manage, but I suppose I should expect that out of any class with "Foundations" in the title. THe teacher has a strong background in school violence management.
Multicultural Foundations: My adviser is the professor, and she seems prepared to go gritty on the subject material. The workload seems disproportionate with a lot of the other classes, especially in the volume of reading. I need to get ahead of this one. I'm looking forward to going overboard on this one, as the subject is so central. I also managed to draw the first book review/presentation of the term, so only three weeks out.
In summary, there is a LOT of opportunity to overcommit myself. Cool. Apologies in advance for when I say "I can't go to
