Wonderful Oppertunity Ruined

How exactly does one describe this education class this semester besides a lack of organizing. The Center of Pedagogy has left many tasks for Dr. G to be done by herself with no help at all. How can you expect a teacher who has over 100 students to make sure that every single one of them gets placed in a school. Now since the COP did not want to follow the class closely enough many students like myself have a major paper to write in the next week without ever have observing a class which we should have done a long time ago. It seems like a major let down for this class because Dr.G has done everything she should have, educate her students about he problems and issues in urban education while making a subject which sometimes may be dry, be so interesting I find myself pondering topics in class on my own time. As this point of the semester I am extremely stressed along with most of my classmates for a project that should have been mostly thought provoking material into a project with so many loose ends that still need to be tied.

As far as observing I was going to go to the Arts HS today with one of my fellow classmates but unfortunately forgot i had to work all day so was unable to go there. So now I tackle this question, when does the center of pedagogy want m,e to observe? after the project is already to be handed in? Now i am having my grade affected by something that was almost entirely out of my hands. I had an issues with my teacher because i had sent her a very professional email and received one back saying "I think you have the wrong person." Terrific! This is a perfect example of how communication is key in education. Obviously when it came to this class there was very little communication being done, or many counts of miscommunication.

Alumni Basketball Game

After going to an alumni vs. students basketball game at my town with my sister it opened my eyes to many things that I did not experience going to a county high school. Going to a county high school makes it hard for the sports teams to get the support that they would from a "normal" town high school, since the games were played in Hackensack it made it harder for the students to travel back and forth to see the games, especially if they couldn't drive.

Since my sister is a freshman in my town's high school I figured that this would be a wonderful opportunity to go to a game and see the interaction of students.Every year the high school has an alumni game in which the current varsity basketball team plays members of its alumni. The girls play first, then the boys game is next. Going to this game brought back many memories from high school and made me feel old(I'm not sure how thats possible but it did!)

During the girls game it was obvious that the competition was less extreme than they guy's game, but the girls had more fun and took it less light. The crowd was also less rowdy for the girls game. It was very nice seeing the friendly competition of the old coaches and their old players. I think the most interesting part was watching the players faces to hear what their coaches were telling them, also listening to the crowd to see what they thought about the new and older players. Going to one of these games knowing most of the players makes it more interesting because while I was listening to the criticism of the crowd I thouht of myself and when I used to play sports...what were the bystanders saying when I missed a shot? or struck out? or missed a fly ball? Going to one of these games shows you many things that have to do with our daily life.

Watching the boys game was a bit more entertaining solely because men are showoffs, they love showing off their talent, or at least trying to show off! It was also funny watching the older alumni men trying to prove that they still "had it", while most of the alumni were bigger than the varsity team, some showed that they lost their skills and were washed up!

Overall, I enjoyed watching the games, they were mostly entertaining but also a learning experience!