Welcome To The Void!

This is where I, Mr. B (AKA Mr. Bissonnette (AKA Zac (AKA Z-A-C, No H, No K))), will be reflecting on my learning in cohort 2.

I plan to include resources, my personal work, funny YouTube videos of like... cats and stuff. Honestly probably other things that pertain to my major and nonsense. Maybe I'll talk about my feelings or politics.

Who knows? The future is crazy, man.

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Goodbye Southwick!

This is it. My final week of internship. I can't wait to be in the class for a whole week straight! Fuck, I shouldn't have jinxed it. That's right, this last week was fully online for me. I feel robbed. I did my best with what was handed to me, all things considered. But I didn't really get a fair send off. Seems kind of anticlimactic. To rectify this, I'll be going an extra day next week to have my official last day. A real chance to say goodbye to the kiddos. But for now, I'll talk a little bit about my final week at Southwick via Zoom! This being the final week, I ended up taking over a large chunk of most of the classes. They all went off without a hitch... mostly. Overall however, Mr. Ready and I were able to get around some online difficulties in very creative ways as co-teachers. The week had up’s and down’s. The first period of everyday was math. A warm up, a difficult problem to discuss with the class, and then a lesson or quiz is par for the cours...

Serious Synchronous Subject Struggles

Let me start by saying I am not a trained math teacher. Hey, I’m technically not even a trained teacher teacher. But my biggest struggle has been trying to teach my students math. I know that this year has been taxing on everyone (and I’m thankful I don’t have to do my student teaching this year) but to no one's surprise, it’s really hard to just get kids to work! So assuming that my student shows up for his online classes AND is willing to work is just the tip of the iceberg. Being able to effectively teach him my own struggle subjects (specifically math) is a whole new beast. I’ve never had a good math brain. Math brain smooth. No wrinkles. No thinky. But now, not only do I have to understand the concept well enough to tutor a student, which is bad enough, but also to convey those lessons over the internet. I can’t do that teacher thing of leaning over the shoulder to correct an equation or make a minus mark into a positive. I have to share a screen and write online. My ...

One Of The Unspoken Creative Outlets Of Teaching

I'm sure you've all experienced it at one point another. That passion you feel for a specific unit as you write it. The joy of coming up with engaging and fun ways to teach your students. The thrill of uncovering new information about a topic you thought you already had mastered. It's a great feeling. It is currently 10:50PM and I continue to add to my lessons because I'm honestly having a good time with it! (what's that? A college student is enjoying staying up late to do their homework in the middle of the night??) You heard it right, folks. I'm confident, excited, and absolutely rocking this lesson plan! My current obsession is my social studies unit on Art Spiegleman's MAUS Series. MAUS was the first (but not the last) graphic novel to win the Pulitzer prize in 1992. I had heard great things about the book, but had never read it before. I was honestly jealous when my brother's private school used the book to teach his class about the Holocaust....

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