This is how we do it..

So far in class we have been reading All Quiet on the Western Front and discussing WWI. Today in a discussion about how gas was outlawed after the war for being “too violent” a weapon a student asked me:

“If they outlawed gas, why not nuclear weapons?”

Making connections folks. History informing the modern age, this is what it is all about. I wanted to jump up and down screaming Yes!! but I didn’t want to look crazy in front of an assistant principal.

I did however manage a “Mhmmm, that would make a good paper topic.”

1 Week

I have student taught for one week so far at an expeditionary school out here in Colorado. My immediate thoughts:

1) Hey Kids! Your teachers (me) use Wikipedia too, but you’ll never know.

2) I amazed at the stamina at some of my fellow teachers, amazed and envious.

Mr. Scott-Tunkin

I start my education practicum this Monday.  In other words I am that awkward college kid who sat in the back of your classroom, that you kept glancing back at when you were bored with your teacher’s lecture-that’s me.  I have been assigned to City High School in Iowa City, and will be taking part in 9th grade American Studies and 10th grade World History…I’m excited to park in the Teacher lot.