WendieWillis

Introduction...

Teaching Journal excerpt November 17, 2007 Dr. Iverson sent us a note that we needed to post at least one journal entry to our wikispace. I just tried to post something and realized I was confused in thinking I was posting to the dissertation prep wiki but it was the teaching intern wiki. I thank God I had the presence of mine to save what I wrote in a Microsoft Word document that I will transfer to the dissertation prep sight later.

I still have not reviewed my teaching DVD’s; now I am running out of time as I am scheduled to meet with Dr. Varrati on Monday. It is Saturday evening at 6pm, my body’s telling me its 11pm. I need to take some more Echinachea; that stuff is a miracle-herb. I was so sick yesterday that I thought I would have to stay in the bed all day today. Echinachea every four hours sublingually has done its work and I am feeling about 80%. Dr. Varrati sent me her comments but I do not want to read them until I have seen my own teaching via DVD and completed my observation form.

I wasn’t able to make it to most of Dr. Iverson’s class this week because of a prior appointment. When I walked in one of the students was sharing a book review. Dr. Iverson went on to discuss something from the readings for the week. This discussion did not generate the response from the students I think it should have. I think everybody is burnt out. There are three weeks left and it is about survival of the intellectual fittest.

I did have a chance to attend an external review meeting of the grad students in the TLCS department. Unlike previous years there were mostly HIED students in attendance; two master’s students and two doc students. I hope this was not a “garbage can act” (as we learned about in my Leadership class.), brought to us by the leadership of the department. Instead I am hoping all the notes that were jotted down by the reviewers will not only be shared with the administration of our department, but acted upon in a meaningful way.