So another semester begins and another "introduction" post is required. I get the feeling that a post that says nothing other than "read the first post on the blog" would not meet the desired objectives. So I am making another post of "who I am" and other such ramblings that should appease the needs of the assignment requirements. (I have to find ways to be a "disruptance" outside of scheduled class time as well as in.)
I am a Biology-Composite Teaching major, and am hoping to teach high school biology, but would enjoy teaching Jr. high or middle school as well. I love biology because I feel it is a culmination of all other learning. In order to really know and understand biology it is necessary to understand (at least on some level) chemistry, physics, geology, meteorology, and math. And the more that is known about other subjects such as different languages helps even more. The more you know about other things the better you can know about biology. And within biology there are so many disciplines that can be studied. The options to learn from and dive into deeper are limitless.
I have been a reading tutor in the past. In fact when I was a teenager I was awarded the Governors Youth Volunteer Achievement Award because of the work I had done with my reading tutoring. So teaching and literacy are something that have been part of who I am and what I work for for a majority of my life.
Discretion dictates that I end this post sooner rather than later, or I fear I shall end up writing as J.R.R. Tolkien and continuing to put down words for the sake of seeing my own words in print while failing to say anything of direct relevance and fail to move the story along.
Just For The Credit! - Assigned postings by a man intrigued by humor on the web.
About Me
- Jack Russell
- This blog was started for an assignment in an education class by a biology teaching major. It was created just for the credit. Anything beyond the classes requirement's for this blog are pure exploration and curiosity.
Brian/Jack Russell: I majored in English and history, and later in life I fell in love with the earth sciences, so I don't know much about the life sciences other than what I took as an undergrad and high school student. I must say, though, that your connection to meteorology is intriguing and I look forward to hearing more about that. I wouldn't have connected biology to meteorology on my own.
ReplyDeleteThanks for an interesting first posting and for being a good sport about writing another introduction. I look forward to reading more of your thoughts about learning and teaching biology in the weeks to come.