Archive for October 2006
What’s You’re Major?
The one question I think people ask me everyday is
“What’s your major?” It seems like everyone want to know what your major
is. Well mine is Childhood Education with a concentration in math. Well I was
going to have concentration in math until I realized how much I really
don’t like math courses. This semester I’m in elementary statistics and I can’t
stand that course. So I’m thinking about changing my concentration to American
Studies, I think that will be something I will enjoy much better. It just seems
like the math courses are going to be a struggle for me. Not that there going
to be hard it’s just going to be a struggle. I think that they’re going to be
really difficult for me to stay focused in. I’ve only had one math course but I’ve
found it difficult to stay focused and do my work. I find myself daydreaming
and dosing off in class. So next semester I plan on taking some courses I will
enjoy more. While I’m here I would also
like to try and get a minor in business. In high school I took a lot of
business courses and I really loved them. I’m even interested I starting my own
business. I just think taking some business courses will help me and make my
course load more enjoyable. I would like
to open and run a private preschool after I get my degree so having business
courses would help me a lot in pursuing my goal.
1 comment October 12, 2006
Rebuilding shop classes in U.S. high schools
“When our students are connected to a person or a
program, they seem to do better than those kids that are not connected, are
struggling academically and are potential dropouts,” Principal Doug
Williams of Hoover High School said in a CNN article about reinstating
vocational classes into High Schools. I think this is very true. I found from
personal experience that when I was playing sports in high school my grades
were higher than when I stopped. The enthusiasm you have towards school
activity drives you to work hard in school. Some of the complaints about
vocational studies are that the students don’t learn have enough time to focus
on their core subjects. In my high school however all the students that attended
vocational studies were still able to get a regents diploma. So there ha got to
be some way that schools can accomadate students who aren’t looking to go to
college.
2 comments October 3, 2006
