Stress Week!!

I can't believe I have time to write this right now, but somehow I do. On Monday I started my two 9-day classes. That's right. Two four-hour classes each day, for only 9 days. The President of the Education Department came into our class today to explain why we are having these classes in such a short amount of time in the summer. We are doing this so we will be able to have a little break before school starts up in the fall and so we will be able to graduate in the spring with our masters and licensure. That makes me a little appreciative of the classes...a little.

Anyway, right now I am taking a Classroom Management class and a Measurement & Assessment class. It's extremely funny, awkward, and interesting at times because these classes contain future high school teachers of all subjects, including social studies, math, and English. It's so weird because we haven't had classes with education majors outside our content, and we all kind of sit in our own secluded groups according to subject. Here is what I have decided, Math people think VERY differently than English people. Most are very literal and absolute when it comes to ideas about education, while a lot of us are more figurative and open-minded. It makes sense though. 2+2=4 is very absolute and literal, whereas analyzing an article...not so much. Although we sometimes disagree, it's interesting to hear things from their perspective. To be honest, if I would have been a Middle Childhood Education major, I would have chosen English and math as my two subjects. I guess I have a little bit of a literal mind also :)