Ok, so I am unemployed and do not live in a real room (with a door that is). Though, I finally got off my lazy ass and did something about one of those. I got a listing of all the new schools in NYC and the charter schools and spend basically all day today just reading up on the various philosophies of the schools and emailing them.
I got through the Manhattan schools today, which most of them were in Harlem, which is great considering I want to live in that area. But what’s even better is that I have an interview on Monday with a school and I also get to do a demo lesson. This is a middle school, so I will teach either 6th, 7th or 8th grade (if I get the 6th grade job, I’ll have to pay like $150 or so to get my certification extended from 7-12 to 6-12…. which shows everyone how much training they want teachers to have to an additional grade, hahahaha….). I have been trying to think of something fun to teach and work on, though I can’t think of anything. If anyone remembers a topic they found particularly interesting in middle school, please let me know!
The apartment search will begin soon, maybe around the first week in July.
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27 June 2009
Hmm 6th grade, those were the days. I think my favorite topic was calculating Jordan Canonical Forms of matrices, although it was kind of trivial I suppose, I was naive back then. Lol, what do they even know in 6th grade? Like multiplication tables? Long division?
What about teaching about decimal representation of fractions? You could conclude with showing them that it is not unique with that proof that .9999… = 1, I thought that one was a winner and doesn’t really require anything deep.
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