It was like 2AM and I had been checking short Japanese compositions on Blackboard, explaining in words that もってくる and もっていく are not interchangeable, and that I think it's weird that many people seemingly use "take" and "bring" interchangeably in English. What a jumble of words, I thought, and deciding that pictures would make things …
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Happy Belated New Year!
I spent my winter break preparing to teach Japanese 1020 at my university. As an Education major it amuses me that I can't teach at most grade schools yet, as that requires state certification, but I'm being allowed to teach Japanese at the college level. Well, it is Elementary Japanese, but still. Of course, having …
The Alchemist In Situ
When I first introduced my project to make an unusual bookshelf, I mentioned that it ultimately was to go in a particular corner of my room. While I've already unveiled the finished product in the post about my program's exhibit this past June, I wanted to show what it looks like in situ. I also …
Why Not Just Teach Kids Not To Be Assholes?
And please don't excuse my language 'cause I would hate for you to misrepresent the true expression of my anguish --Lupe Fiasco, "ITAL" An interesting thing happened in Intro to Art Education today. We were talking about the domains of the Charlotte Danielson "Framework for Teaching," and how even student-teachers would be evaluated on this …
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Warped Frost 