A perfect example of how fast a week goes by when it’s filled with teaching classes, grading work, advising students, and dealing with the politics of an organization! The best part of the week, and a nice something to be leaving this work with: I was supervising a student teacher at a local child care […]
Entries Tagged as 'College students'
67, 66, and 65….children singing
March 28th, 2014 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Musings, Play, retirement, Teaching & Learning, Work
Tags: Children·college·learning·retirement·school·singing·Work
71 and student teachers…
March 22nd, 2014 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Musings, retirement, time, Work
What will I think about when I don’t have student teachers to follow? Each day of the spring semester, I think about them in some way: their hours, the next seminar, their responsibilities and are they fulfilling them, how to make it more challenging for the more mature student, and on and on… I’ve spent […]
Tags: retirement·student teachers·time·Work
84 and the rhythm of time
March 11th, 2014 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, family, Musings, retirement, time, Work
Today I felt a little of the reality of the time I will have to manage when I am retired. It’s been a hard start to my last semester; with unending snow storms, and school closings and all that effects in terms of supervising student teachers. But, this morning I completed the first round of […]
85 days and a phone
March 10th, 2014 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, Education, Musings, retirement, Teaching & Learning, Work
Memo: I have not phoned it in. Today I went to the All College Meeting. It likely occurs at other colleges as well, but once a month, many of the faculty and staff gather for an hour at lunch in our lecture hall. The President fills us in on current economic news (as we are […]
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88 days and adventure
March 5th, 2014 · No Comments · 100 Days Project, College students, family, Important People, Musings, My Goals, retirement, time, Volunteer, Work
I work with the nicest of folks. On my way out of the building today, I saw one of the Psychology faculty and commented on how little I’d managed to see her this semester, even though she and I are only about six offices apart. It turns out she has quite a heavy teaching load […]
Tags: adventure·climate change·college·conversations·daughter·family·learning·passion·retirement·teaching·time·Work