J.Greer...just another sista trying to make it!! From Struggles 2 successes: Volume 1

The Conference

jgreer — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:34:01 +0000

I actually enjoyed the presentations at the conference. I got a chance to talk to some of people in the Urban Leadership Master’s program and i got a little envious!!lol….Their presentations were very informative and meaningful. The two that were in my room did theirs on Black English and how teachers can use it to teach Standard English and the other one was about strengthening individual work to increase group work. GOOD STUFF!! They made me wish i knew Dr. Hilliard the way they talked about him.

Anyway….I tried to stay positive on this blog and I have succeeded so I’m going to say goodbye while I’m ahead!

Good luck on finding a job everyone!!

IM HUNGRY!!!….Journal V1….I think!….

jgreer — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:56:24 +0000

Hello All,

We had class on Monday and we discussed our PSP….I do think we made some progress. I guess when I first raised my hand to agree to do hunger i just raised it becasue I figured we could do a food drive and be though! Easy enough right!? lol…NOT!! Never in the UACM program!!!! After WE had our class guest on Monday i guess I looked at the problem of hunger a little differently and realized that I could one day be in the shoes of the hungry…the TRULY hungry. Our guest made me realize that most people are just one pay check away from needing food assistance…and since i dont even have a paycheck I’m really pretty close!…Anyway, I guess i actually take our PSP a little more seriously than I did before Monday. I liked the activities she had us do, they were real eye openers and a change of pace for most of our classes that we take where Im sitting in class wanting to jump out of the window for 3 hours!!lol I still hope it doesnt take us forever to come up with what we are going to do exactly. See ya’ll Monday!!;-)

2nd Grade @ CLeveland Ave. Elementary….what an experience! (Journal V)

jgreer — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:21:43 +0000

I love my mentor teacher and my kids LITERALLY say the DARNDEST things!! My teacher has been teaching for 40 years and she is SO on point!! She’s like what I thought a teacher should be. You know how you used to think teachers should know EVERYTHING (before you became a teacher!lol) I feel like I can relate to my students a little better at Cleveland than at Idlewood. My teacher keeps me laughing and she straight DIVA!lol…I love it! Second semester is such an adjustment, not just because its a different grade but because you have to come into a class in the middle of the year and adjust to their way of doing things. I’m super ready for student teaching to be over despite the fact that i do enjoy my placement! Two semesters just seems a little much to me!! This Thematic Unit…well I dont have anything positive to say so I wont say anything at all, but the timing is HORRIBLE…could we have gotten a little heads up LAST semester!? I mean really…but hey things are what they are! BYE!

We’re at it again (Journal IV)

jgreer — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:11:36 +0000

Hey guys,

I guess Im behind on these here blogs….Well, welcome back everyone. It was good to see you all This past week. Guess what people…My president is Barack Obama and he is the FIRST black president in the history of the United States!! He has a wonderful wife and teo beautiful children…just in case you didnt know, this man is BAD ya’ll! Bad in the good sense!lol…We watched CNN all day in my class and I wouldn’t have rathered shared it with anyone besides my mentor teacher. She is like a black History Encyclopedia so she was spittin all type of knowledge throughout the day! The kids did all kinds of Obama worksheets and activities during the day. The funniest part was when the kids wrote a poem for President Obama and letters to his girls Malia and Sasha. All the girls said how fine and cute President Obama was and all the boys were trying to make Sasha and Malia their girlfriends! Anyway…I LOVE MY PRESIDENT! For the 1st time in my life I actually care about who the president is!! Michelle is quite a lucky woman!!

ITS ALMOST OVER

jgreer — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:24:49 +0000

Ya’ll first I must say that I am disappointed in myself because I SO didn’t vote today. So of course i must blame something or someone!!lol…I must say its the program’s fault that I didn’t vote because I was so preoccupied with work that I forgot! I really planned on voting after school and went to Kinko’s and got so involved in my work I forgot!! So anyway, i hope that Jim Martin wins…just so that the democrats will have the magic number 60 senators to avoid filibusters!…

I’m so glad that this semester is almost over! There have been many times i have felt like quiting this…wait, teachers see this!!LOL… There have been many times that i have thought about quiting this program, but by God I’ve almost made it through this semester. Through the days that i felt like snapping…I bit my tongue! All i can say is it’s almost OVER!!…Well this semester anyway. I can see a little light at the end of this dark tunnel! It may just be a flashlight, but its more light than I’ve seen ALL semester!! Whoo!!

Ok guys, well I have to finish my *^*$(%&% Memoir and Critical Lense assignment so I’m OWT!!

I almost 4got!!

jgreer — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:16:04 +0000

I’m so tired of getting on this computer i don’t know what to do! Checking emails, typing papers, writing lesson plans, blogging…I hate to say it but this computer is getting on my nerves!! i’m tired of looking at the screen!lol…anyway, I almost forgot to blog for this week! As I usually forget to do things!

My blog is about the PSP in our class. It was so frustrating last week because we seemed to keep saying the same things to me. I didn’t even know what we were talking about anymore by the end of the class…. I still don’t know exactly what the problem is that we are trying to solve. On a good note, we only have 5 more weeks until Christmas break!! a real break with no Homeork and no assignments! because that thing we call Thanksgiving break is a joke! HA HA HA!!

Well i’m going to sign off now and try to finish some homework! I want to go to bed nice and early so i can get up bright and early to go vote tomorrow! I can’t wait to hear Barack Obama be announced the winner…if not,I surely won’t be at school on Wednesday! BELIEVE THAT!!lol…Good day people!

I’m tired ya’ll

jgreer — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:15:56 +0000

Uhhhm, I don’ treally know what to write about. I’m just looking forward to May 2010. I guess I’ll talk about our problem sollution project. I think that we should focus on something on the cohort level so that we could actually try to fix it in the time limit that we have. I like the fact that we looked at problems on all levels though because it made me think about some things that I would like to focus on and try to change once I become a teacher. Hopefully it won’t take us too liong to narrow it down to one thing because that can be VERY irritating…especially at a time like this when everyone seems to be a little frustrated. Anyway…I’m looking forward to next semester because that means I’ll be one semester closer to graduation!! See ya’ll in class!!

One Word Check In

jgreer — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:28:11 +0000

Disappointed! …Real talk!…I just realized that I never posted this!!

PanWHO? lol…

jgreer — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:03:16 +0000

Whoo! First let me say that this has been the longest three weeks of my life and I am glad Maymester is over, but I’m gonna miss everybody this one week we’re out!…

OK, I’m writing my blog on our cohort name. Like I said in class, I was with Ashley because when I thought of Pangea I thought of something breaking apart. I had spoke my point on Urbtopia as much as I could without speaking negatively about Pangea. When we first started doing the consensus process I really loved it, but by the time we got to two names I was frustrated with it!! I felt like everything I could say about Urbtopia had been said, I was tired, and I was frustrated so I pulled back from the conversation. I wanted to see if anybody else was backing Urbtopia than just myself. I would like to send a shout out to Ashley,Anna, and Jessica O. for holding down Urbtopia ! Anyway I got even more frustrated with the process when it was a problem for me to disengage but it was also a problem for me to dig my feet in the sand and not let go of Urbtopia. I just want to say that me disengaging from the process doesn’t mean that i didn’t care about our cohort name because if I didn’t care I wouldn’t have fought for Urbtopia the way I did! When we were going back and forth I felt like I was in the Obama and Clinton Democratic Primary!lol…First everybody was supporting Urbtopia, then it went to Pangea, then everybody was leaning back to Urbtopia…I thought the Super delegates Brian,Rhina, and Vera were going to have to decide which name would win! lol…Anyway I was very touched at the letter that the Dr.s Williams wrote to us and the personalized quotes they gave us!! I know we’ll all see each other in a week but we won’t be in their class anymore!…well not this summer anyway! …See you guys next Monday…& don’t forget to turn in your Synthesis papers! lol

“When You’re Mean A Black Hole Replaces Your Heart”

jgreer — Sat, 24 May 2008 12:48:24 +0000

I really enjoyed our visit at Idlewood Elementary. If nothing else stood out to me, Jayvon’s comment about being mean did! It was so funny but he was so serious. I think that I was somewhat shocked at how intelligent the students were. I wasn’t surprised because it was an urban school, but I was surprised because of their age in general. The little girl that Jessica O. and I were talking to was very smart and well mannered. She knew that school lunch and candy wasn’t healthy for her and she also eagerly wanted to learn to speak Spanish. I realized that one worry I have about being a teacher is showing favoritism. I look at students like Jayvon and Raven that were so eager to participate and well behaved and I feel like I would just get so attached to them. I know that I will have to be very conscious not to show favoritism, but I don’t want my students to be able to pick up on any minute signs of favoritism. I also had a very serious reality check when we were talking to the teachers. I don’t think I really realized how busy we are going to be the next 2 years…I almost had a panic attack! Sylvia and I had to start talking about something else because it was getting very depressing! But to end on a good note…being in a class with students took some of my nerves away about student teaching in the fall!