I just bought a new book titled The Geography of Thought by Richard E. Nisbett. It was recommended to me by my professor at Chaminade. He said that if I wanted to do my dissertation on comparing the U.S. curriculum with the Japan curriculum, then I'd need to read this book. However, I have chapters after chapters to read for school, therefore I will need to make an extreme effort in making time to read this.
I substituted again today. It was for another fourth grade class. The teacher made it so easy for me to substitute. Most of it was basically supervising the students. It wasn't as stressful as my first substituting job. In fact, I'd love to substitute for her anytime. Her students worked diligently and were honest in what the procedures were for the classroom. Except for one student. He needed my attention 24/7. Crazy kid.
One of the tasks was to proctor a math test. As I was walking around I noticed that many students didn't have labels for their answers. So I told them that they should make sure that they have labels for their answers. It's amazing because some students didn't know what a label was. So I had to give them an example. 12, what? 12 monkeys? 12 bananas? 12 dollars? What is it? I think some of the students caught on, but some were still clueless as to what they were suppose to do.
Today in my EDCS 653D class a student did a project on the Mobius Strip, an object with one surface and one edge. I was totally amazed at the presentation. Do you know what you'd get if you cut the Mobius Strip in half down the middle the long way? You should try it out. You'd be amazed, too. Another presentation was about the Fibonacci sequence represented through geometry. I knew of the Fibonacci sequence, but I didn't know that it could be represented as the Golden Rectangle. Pretty interesting things.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
9/9/08
Ok, so I slacked a few days...or a week.
Today for my ED 678 class we needed to decide who we'll be interviewing for our Final Project. I wrote that I wanted to interview Mrs. Ikehara, but I don't know how it's going to relate to my dissertation. Actually, I don't know what my dissertation is going to be about so how would it relate? Maybe through this interview I can come up with a theme that'll interest me.
In class we discussed the book "Sticking to the Union" by Polishuk. I really didn't know what the book was about until the students in class talked about their views. The professor said it's hard to be indifferent about this book and usually people like it or hate it, but I'm on the fence about it. Mostly because I didn't understand it though...
Today for my ED 678 class we needed to decide who we'll be interviewing for our Final Project. I wrote that I wanted to interview Mrs. Ikehara, but I don't know how it's going to relate to my dissertation. Actually, I don't know what my dissertation is going to be about so how would it relate? Maybe through this interview I can come up with a theme that'll interest me.
In class we discussed the book "Sticking to the Union" by Polishuk. I really didn't know what the book was about until the students in class talked about their views. The professor said it's hard to be indifferent about this book and usually people like it or hate it, but I'm on the fence about it. Mostly because I didn't understand it though...
Friday, August 22, 2008
8/22/08
What is a dissertation? According to the American Heritage Dictionary it is a length and formal treatise or discourse, especially one written by a candidate for the doctoral degree at a university; thesis. Basically, it's an original research that is really long.
*note: Answer questions on page 42 and 43 of Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day.
Original research means no one has done it before, right? What sort of research do I want to do? What am I passionate about? It needs to be something I can stick with for a few years. Is it second language acquisition in the early years? Is it going to be on bilingual studies? Is it going to be on elementary math? What about classroom discipline? Regular academic discipline? The program I entered is titled "Curriculum Studies". Does that mean that it has to do with studying a type of curriculum? Does that mean I'm coming up with my own curriculum? Am I analyzing curriculum? Comparing and contrasting curriculum? I really don't know. Maybe I can choose a topic and if it doesn't fit, I can switch programs? Is that a lot of hassle? Is that possible? Does an original research require money? For travel? Data collection? I think I need to re-read what exactly curriculum study is about first.
Ok, so specialization in curriculum and instruction is a specialization in developing educational leaders in curriculum development, teaching, curriculum evaluation and/or teacher education and professional development.
*note: Answer questions on page 42 and 43 of Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day.
Original research means no one has done it before, right? What sort of research do I want to do? What am I passionate about? It needs to be something I can stick with for a few years. Is it second language acquisition in the early years? Is it going to be on bilingual studies? Is it going to be on elementary math? What about classroom discipline? Regular academic discipline? The program I entered is titled "Curriculum Studies". Does that mean that it has to do with studying a type of curriculum? Does that mean I'm coming up with my own curriculum? Am I analyzing curriculum? Comparing and contrasting curriculum? I really don't know. Maybe I can choose a topic and if it doesn't fit, I can switch programs? Is that a lot of hassle? Is that possible? Does an original research require money? For travel? Data collection? I think I need to re-read what exactly curriculum study is about first.
Ok, so specialization in curriculum and instruction is a specialization in developing educational leaders in curriculum development, teaching, curriculum evaluation and/or teacher education and professional development.
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