Well to start, I'd like to see a return in formal grammar, in grades K-11. There are a few studies done in states like Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania that show schools who have decided to return formal grammar into the classroom with much improved results.
Secondly, I walk around my campus and see much more available resources for student to receive additional help in their studies, like math labs, writing labs, and chemistry labs. What if lab were created in high school, and students were allowed to visit them DURING the school day. I know that college isn't the same as high school, but isn't that what we're preparing them form. I don't see why should blend the later high school years with early college years.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Describe the characteristics of your own most significant teacher...
I'll mention someone from high school, and not from college, since I'll be teaching at a high school level.
Mr. Lugo was my senior high school English teacher. There were rumors that his wife had left him for a truck drive who worked for H.E.B. If these rumor were true, the man didn't let his heartache, if he was experiencing, show. He read to us poetry, and emphasized certain lines that he himself thought made a great impact to the work. Then he'd ask us for our own opinion, to specifically sight something we liked in a poem. After a few days of studying poetry, he assigned us to write our own poem, and even though I pretended to detest this assignment(everyone hated and I really wanted to fit in at the time so i pretended to hate it as well), I put many painstaking hours into producing a thought provoking poem. A classmate of mine, didn't make at all, and asked me if I had an extra poem he could use. I wrote one in 10 minutes(it was very short) and he read it to the class. To my surprise, Mr. Lugo like the short poem I wrote in 10 minutes, and praised my fellow classmate for writing it, even though I was the true author. This didn't bother me however, because all I cared about was that he liked what I had genuinely wrote.
Students in his class disrespected him many times, but it didn't get to him. In fact, it seemed that any negative remarks bounced off him like bullets do to Superman.
What I liked about Mr. Lugo was that appreciated all type of literature. And he admitted when he didn't know something, but didn't feel ashamed about it. He was calm, and patient man who always had a new paperback on his desk.
I ran into him not too long ago at, and this is going to be ironic, H.E.B. I went up to him and gave him with overdue acclaim. I didn't expect him to remember me, and he didn't, but I just wanted him to know how much his teachings and love for literature meant to me. I met his new wife too, they seemed very very in love with each other.
Mr. Lugo was my senior high school English teacher. There were rumors that his wife had left him for a truck drive who worked for H.E.B. If these rumor were true, the man didn't let his heartache, if he was experiencing, show. He read to us poetry, and emphasized certain lines that he himself thought made a great impact to the work. Then he'd ask us for our own opinion, to specifically sight something we liked in a poem. After a few days of studying poetry, he assigned us to write our own poem, and even though I pretended to detest this assignment(everyone hated and I really wanted to fit in at the time so i pretended to hate it as well), I put many painstaking hours into producing a thought provoking poem. A classmate of mine, didn't make at all, and asked me if I had an extra poem he could use. I wrote one in 10 minutes(it was very short) and he read it to the class. To my surprise, Mr. Lugo like the short poem I wrote in 10 minutes, and praised my fellow classmate for writing it, even though I was the true author. This didn't bother me however, because all I cared about was that he liked what I had genuinely wrote.
Students in his class disrespected him many times, but it didn't get to him. In fact, it seemed that any negative remarks bounced off him like bullets do to Superman.
What I liked about Mr. Lugo was that appreciated all type of literature. And he admitted when he didn't know something, but didn't feel ashamed about it. He was calm, and patient man who always had a new paperback on his desk.
I ran into him not too long ago at, and this is going to be ironic, H.E.B. I went up to him and gave him with overdue acclaim. I didn't expect him to remember me, and he didn't, but I just wanted him to know how much his teachings and love for literature meant to me. I met his new wife too, they seemed very very in love with each other.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Introduction
Greetings!
My name is Daniel V Rodriguez. I'm an English Major at the University of Texas at Brownsville. It's a great campus, and I've enjoyed most of the professors from whom I have had the honor to learn. A recent study was released stating that most students do no learn anything in their first two years at college, but I respectfully disagree. There wasn't an instance where I didn't learn anything from my freshman and sophomore classes at school.
I mostly enjoy reading literature, specifically, poetry and horror and humor novels. I like to help people, and am a Christian, even though I don't attend church.
Well, that's enough from me for the moment.
-Daniel V Rodriguez
My name is Daniel V Rodriguez. I'm an English Major at the University of Texas at Brownsville. It's a great campus, and I've enjoyed most of the professors from whom I have had the honor to learn. A recent study was released stating that most students do no learn anything in their first two years at college, but I respectfully disagree. There wasn't an instance where I didn't learn anything from my freshman and sophomore classes at school.
I mostly enjoy reading literature, specifically, poetry and horror and humor novels. I like to help people, and am a Christian, even though I don't attend church.
Well, that's enough from me for the moment.
-Daniel V Rodriguez
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