| All About Me! |
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| I'm Candy Owens. I'm an Education student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. I will graduate in August of 2001, with a Bachelor of Education in Intermediate and Secondary Education. Previously, I've obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Physical Anthropology / Archaeology from Memorial in 1998. In 1998, I also received a Certificate of Criminology. I've also obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from Memorial in 1999. |
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| Starting January 12, 2001, I will be commencing my Internship in Education at Brother Rice Junior High School in St. John's, Newfoundland. During my internship, I will be teaching Grade 8 and Grade 9 Science classes. I am really looking forward to it and I am sure that I will have an interesting and enlightening 13 weeks. |
| This past semester [September 2000 - December 2000] I completed the following courses, relating to my Education Degree: Education 4005 - Effective Teaching Education 4180 - The Teaching of Social Studies in the Intermediate and Secondary School Education 4260 - The Nature of Late Adolescence Education 4270 - The Teaching of Biology in the Intermediate and Secondary School Education 4360 - Sociology of Education / Teaching in the Contemporary Classroom Education 4950 - Evaluation of Teaching and Learning This summer I will complete another six courses in order to complete my Education Degree. |
| Well, it's now February 16. I am about 5 weeks into my internship and I have to say it's going great ! I've just started teaching a unit on Electricity. My first lesson was on Static Electricity and it went quite well. Unfortunately, we've lost quite a few days to bad weather here in St. John's, Newfoundland - 5 to be exact. And that's only since the middle of January. We're having quite the winter this year. But the weather aside, everything is great and I look forward to the next 8 weeks. And I'll keep everyone posted as to how it's going. Later! |
| Today is March 12. It's been a few weeks since my last update. I'm still here at Brother Rice Junior High. I've added a few more classes to my teaching list, although they are all Grade 9 Science. We've recently had our Science Fair, and it went great! We had a total of 275 projects entered into the Fair this year. Let me tell you, there was quite a bit of preparation that went into setting that up and making sure that it ran smoothly. With the exception of a few minor glitches, it pretty much ran like clockwork. I'm still teaching the unit on Electricity - next class will be on thermocouples and the piezoelectric effect. The students seem pretty interested in the topic, which definitely makes my life easier. There's exactly one month left for my internship (I finish on April 12th). Then I get a month off until I finish my Education Degree by completing six courses over the summer - 6! That's all for now! |