Today we're going to talk about CONSTRUCTIVISM, kids.  Are you ready?

Constructivist teaching (pedagogy) delineates that you create an environment in which learning is encouraged, then engage the student in active discovery of his or her own meaning to the subject matter.  In a constructivist classroom, the teacher is less a 'teacher' so much as a ' ( Read more... )

why is it always so hard to remember that I am in charge of my life and the experiences contained therein?  why is it that I default to wanting to give up the control over (and responsiblity for, and blame for and consequences of) my actions?

i have been working on taking a more proactive/participant role in my life.  what i really want most is the ( Read more... )

So 22 is apparently the year of power.

I haven't had a whole lot to say here because i've been busy getting shit done.

I have come to some clarity on the meaning of my life.

I have a chicken in my lap.

And it's my turn to spin.

!!

<3
Hannah

Maybe I'm just tired. I just get overwhelmed sometimes with the broad scope of things I have yet to learn. Coming from a girl who, really, always felt like she was a pretty smart cookie...I have so many more days where I wonder what the hell I am really doing with myself. I suspect it has something to do with the somewhat less-structured ( Read more... )

yowzah!

stellar past 48 hours. including, but not limited to:

promotion at workafter much angsting about current spot, and then some "hannah...just be patient" and finally culminating in the meeting with mary (my boss) - i have a new place in the kaplan world. i will get to work with/on the standardization team, which is where all the cool kids ( Read more... )

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believe it or not, i have, in the past 24 hours, received 14 invitations to be a pen pal from people who can't read. because, if they could read, they would have said...hmmm...look at that. wrong equipment. this girl's profile says she's only interested in a female penpal, and i am clearly lacking in sufficient quantities of ESTROGEN. GOD, men ( Read more... )

So! I have decided the following ( Read more... )

Blessings to my co-worker and friend Cathy for loaning me Foreign Babes in Beijing. I have this fiction infatuation, but vestiges of school (and lack thereof) nag at me to read non-fiction. And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have the fabulous combination of both - a memoir ( Read more... )