Elementary Education | Marginalia

Summer classes in the education department are quite a blur. I’m three weeks in, and I feel like we’ve just begun. I suspect it’s beca..

My finals week was spent not taking final exams or writing final lesson plans, but rather in the throes of installing our interactive spac..

I am currently in the midst of PGA madness. Sarah McHugh and I teamed up to create an interactive installation for Columbia’s annual g..

There is just a short amount of time left on the spring calendar, and I am seriously anticipating summer. The Elementary Education MAT..

One of the major components of each of our methods courses is writing a lesson plan for the content area we’re studying. I have to adm..

If you would have asked me what subject and grade I was interested in teaching at the beginning of the year, I would have answered “4t..

I never took a real spring break in undergrad, so I suppose it makes sense that I spent this past spring break visiting friends and fa..

This past week was rather a whirlwind, but also very fun. I started observations at a new school in Chinatown, taught the Hunger Games..

Cherise and I teach our Hunger Games lesson plan this Thursday, so we spent the weekend printing worksheets, buying art supplies, and ..

As promised in last week’s post, here is my analysis of Rookie Magazine’s effect on adolescents. All of the photos on the blog are my ..