Teachers

The other day we had three new teachers come into the classroom and speak to us. All of them were from northeast Iowa and two of them were from the same school and ended up working at the same school. The other thing in common that all three of them had is that they all went to Luther.
It was nice to hear some stories about how their schools are and how they got through the program. Some students talked about how they wanted more of a diverse group of teachers then what we had. I agree with that but at the same time I really enjoyed having all teachers from small schools because that is where I want to teach, and hearing their stories of their small school experience was great.
I dont know if I want to end up in northeast Iowa for teaching but I do really want to get into a smaller school where I can connect to the students as well as those teachers have.

Paper Clips

A few days ago my ed. physc class watched a movie called paper clips. It was about how this small town in Tennessee taught a select group of middle school kids about the holocaust.

I really didn't know what to expect of this movie when it first started. It was really hard to think about how these kids were only in middle school. I think I remember talking about the holocaust when I was younger but I don't really remember anything from that time. I only recall learning anything solid about the holocaust my Junior year of high school.

Also going along with how young the kids were in this movie the videos my class watched in my class were hard for me to watch so I can't even think about how the kids must have felt. They even had speakers from that period come and tell their stories, which I feel was the most valuable part of the class, and I'm sure that was not easy to listen to.

I thought overall the movie was alright, I think they strayed away from the big picture of the movie a few times and it was hard for me to get back into the seriousness of the subject when I see butterflies on sidewalks.