Continuing Education

It's a date night tonight with the hubby!  Make that a study date night.  This week I started my Master's in Education program.  I'm pretty stoked that I can take the whole program online, but at the same time it requires huge amounts of discipline on my end.  I don't know about you, but as a teacher, I find myself pretty scatter-brained and heading in many different directions at once - only to get distracted once more to start yet another activity! They should call it Teacher ADD! (Perhaps that's why I'm blogging instead of studying....)

Anyhoo, this term I'm taking two classes: (1) Introduction to Action Research and (2) Learning Styles, Learning Theories.  I'm not much for research. I would much rather have someone else do the researching and I'll bask in the results.  Lol.  But I do understand its importance and as the author of one of my texts wrote, it's important for those who are using to research to see if it's a valid experiment or test of theory.

S.T.E.M., S.T.E.A.M, or S.T.R.E.A.M.?

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.  Those are the building blocks with which our country is trying to rebuild education.  And with good reason, too. The U.S. is desperately falling behind in these areas and with the exponential growth of technology, jobs, and human advancement, our children can not afford to fall behind.

Our summer reading includes this book:

I haven't finished it yet, but it is great at understanding how our current education system is not adequately preparing our children and students for becoming contributing citizens of our country.