Future Teacher, Forever Student

We can all picture it: Walking to the bus stop with our iPod shuffles (or iPod Touches, if you were really keeping up with the times), blasting some song we heard at the school dance last weekend, where our best friend finally danced with that kid he or she really likes. The Sims games are still popular, there's a DCOM marathon on television later this week, and for once you're actually enjoying your homework readings (let's say The Giver, or The Outsiders ). For me, this was sometime between 2009 and 2012, a terribly awkward time that most of us could compare to a personal revival of the Dark Ages. On a less dramatic note, I just described the average morning my friends and I shared on the way to our middle school. At the beginning of this past week (Monday, 9/17), I walked through the doors of Essex Middle School, humming the tune to a song I had just heard on the radio. The weight of the books in my backpack was a physical reminder of all the reading I still had to ...

Hello, and Welcome to Round 2 of blogging about my journey as an education major at Saint Michael’s College! It was a long and enjoyable summer, but I am definitely glad to be back at my home away from home (where Fall is already in the air). Year three of my studies is off to a busy start— especially in the Education Department, where this semester I will be studying the ins and outs of middle and high school literacy and curriculum. To kick off the academic year, my peers and I dove right into learning about how literacy and curriculum are constantly changing with new theories and studies, innovations in technology, and practices that teachers develop when adjusting proven strategies and techniques to their own styles. More importantly, my classmates and I placed the future of literacy and curriculum (that is, the literacies and curriculums we will be teaching) into perspective with the growing influence of technology in our digital age. In both my Literacy and Curriculum cour...