{"id":563,"date":"2003-05-28T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2003-05-28T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/05\/28\/5-28-03\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T14:14:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T21:14:46","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/28\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m chasing my shadow again with my <strong>teaching<\/strong> stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I started the summer session at <a href=\"http:\/\/warren.edu\/\">WCCC<\/a> yesterday. Educational Psychology and Biology. I figured that Ed Psych would be a good primer for the real thing and &#8230; heck, I&#8217;ve never had a college level biology class so I should round myself out. The Bio immediately lost my interest&#8230; Kingdoms, flagellums and endoplasmic reticulum<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/journal\/journal%20040103-053103\/index.html#reticulum\">*.<\/a>.. boring! And the teacher seemed &#8220;moderate&#8221;. So I think I&#8217;m going to switch to Statistics&#8230; another something that I&#8217;ve never taken. Since I just aced College Algebra without too much panic, I know I can do well in it and it feels more relevant than amebas (But then that&#8217;s just me.  Everyone has to pick their route in life&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>The teacher in the Educational Psych class, Mrs. Black knows her stuff. In one class I got an excellent feel. I&#8217;m worried that it&#8217;ll be a hard class, especially since it&#8217;s 2hrs and 40 minutes, 3 days a week for 5 weeks! Intense! Remember, I -need- an &#8220;A&#8221; or I won&#8217;t qualify to get into nuffum in the fall. She told me that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccm.edu\/\">CCM<\/a> has a brand spanking new Alternate Route teaching program that I might be able to get into. So I scrambled and made some calls today&#8230;. and left messages on two answering machines. So here I sit, waiting for a call-back.<\/p>\n<p>* Hey, how come &#8220;reticulum&#8221; doesn&#8217;t spell-check in FrontPage? It&#8217;s in -my- everyday vocabulary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m chasing my shadow again with my teaching stuff&#8230; I started the summer session at WCCC yesterday. Educational Psychology and Biology. I figured that Ed Psych would be a good primer for the real thing and &#8230; heck, I&#8217;ve never had a college level biology class so I should round myself out. The Bio immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}