overambitious and delicious:
resume/cover letter
guitar
words:
-internship, newspapers, submissions, letters
-edit/send plays
-begin novel
-poems! (fall term)
job(s)
drown in novels, movies, music
travel (cali, nyc, montreal, boston, hamptons, philly)
Monday, May 3, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
RE: Buidling a Better Teacher, NY Times
On developing a new curriculum, a different caliber of person.
Teachers are magicians whose red pens, imparting knowledge, experience and creative potential on awed spectators, perform instructive wonders.
"Can educators be educated about how to educate?" Yes. Everything we know we have learned.
Merit pay would pin pupil against professional.
Test scores, though somewhat indicative of intelligence, eliminate the profession of magic.
"Technique in disguise" is genius... does genius need to be premeditated?
Simply put, "no one wants incompetent teachers in the classroom."
"A belief in some people," *all people, "that good teaching must be purely instinctive, a kind of magic performed by born superstars."
Everything is a science of something, has a science to it. Only when the intimidating connotations of the "Science" are eliminated can one embrace and study it.
Classroom=experiment. Control the classroom, controlled experiment. Control the crowd, the audience, perform magic, stun the students, engage your viewers, forcibly pique their interest: deception, distraction, magic, and they've been fooled into learning, tricked into creating and conspicuously educated.
TBC
Teachers are magicians whose red pens, imparting knowledge, experience and creative potential on awed spectators, perform instructive wonders.
"Can educators be educated about how to educate?" Yes. Everything we know we have learned.
Merit pay would pin pupil against professional.
Test scores, though somewhat indicative of intelligence, eliminate the profession of magic.
"Technique in disguise" is genius... does genius need to be premeditated?
Simply put, "no one wants incompetent teachers in the classroom."
"A belief in some people," *all people, "that good teaching must be purely instinctive, a kind of magic performed by born superstars."
Everything is a science of something, has a science to it. Only when the intimidating connotations of the "Science" are eliminated can one embrace and study it.
Classroom=experiment. Control the classroom, controlled experiment. Control the crowd, the audience, perform magic, stun the students, engage your viewers, forcibly pique their interest: deception, distraction, magic, and they've been fooled into learning, tricked into creating and conspicuously educated.
TBC
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
doubting those benefits
In the scuzzy bathroom at PNC bank theater, where the Blink 182 comeback concert took place, a 38 (benefit of the doubt) year old woman was decked out in attempts to look young: she knocked down the unemployment rate with the amount of jobs her body's undergone. She was ranting, she was shitfaced, she was a spectacle and she said to my innocently stoned friend, "YOU MARRAY SUMWON WHO TAKES CAREOF YA HUNNAY," and proceeded to grab onto my friends natural blonde locks as a reassuring gesture, at which point I had to interject: "Please, woman, do not manhandle my friends hair.. she grew it all by herself." This was a sad time sandwiched by the most epic concert of my life. Usually that's where sad times most often find themselves, amidst happy ones, I mean. They are much more recognizable this way. Thank you, faux-young woman, for giving us sick advice at that Blink 182 concert... Who knew, ten years later I wouldn't listen.
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