so im in my second semester of senior year now, im applying to graduate schools and talking to principals about teaching. im student teaching 4 days a week, planning a unit for special needs 3rd graders to learn grammar and decoding strategies, and taking 18 credits. im going a little crazy ( Read more... )

okay, so social commentary time.
i say a name and you immediately know who im talking about. drew carey, steve blake, jim carey, michael jackson.
but a slight variation will leave you sucking your thumb and crying out for the familiar.
who the hell is andrew carey? james carey? mike jackson? are they in your class at NYU? can i facebook them?

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now that i have just over a year of school left ive been thinking about teaching...in my ed class we did this stupid ice breaker where everyone had a question to answer. all of the questions were one or two word answers "whats your fav bumper sticker" etc, but one student got "who was your favorite teacher, and tell a story about him or her" once ( Read more... )

well well well...lookie what we have here...debbie? updating? crazy ( Read more... )

its been a crazy couple of weeks. all of my hearties are back in the city and we have been hanging out like its summer again, which is gonna be hard to deal with when i need to go back to class in 2 weeks ( Read more... )

i had my last day with my 3rd graders today...they made me a book, each kid illustrating the page with the line they wrote and wrote a message on the back...heres the poem (bc im obsessed with my kiddies ( Read more... )

im torn ( Read more... )

since i have just realized that 20 year old debbie is boring i decided to change my format.
from here on out i will regularly (sp?) update with what was going on in my life from my diary (1996-1998)it seems i havent changed much...

June 4, 1997 ( Read more... )

since im a junior i started my student teaching this semester in a third grade class. basically im the weird "too old to be a student, too young to be a teacher" person who sat in the back of your elementary school classroom and awkwardly taught one or two lessons every day while your real teacher checked her email ( Read more... )