Just checking to see if this is working yet. No followers yet. Can't believe my genius hasn't been recognized and no viral activity yet sweeping the nation. Anyone?
Jauhn
(and the crickets)
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Lamest Blog Ever.
Hmmm. It was supposed to be "Boba f1.4 Fettish" but I'm new to this. Wish I were "knew" to this. Why does a grown man dress up like a 1982 Star Wars character that had a bit roll in the most depressing cliff hanger in the history of cinematography? Or in a reproduction of his Webelo outfit with liberties taken for merit badges learned post Webelo-ing? Why does a kayaker of midlife crisis start designing f stop apertures on his forearm for what the tattoo artist would later describe as some of the "nerdiest ink" he had ever seen? I don't know. I got tired of writing the 12 standard apertures on the white board when referencing shallow depth of field? I like the way they circles got smaller in scale like a graduated arrow head? That I'm a nerd? A teacher? A Rogue Mandalorian trying to impress upon his legions of photography disciples the importance of knowing the formula to great photography as well as the mathematical nomenclature of our weapon? The Pentax K1000? If I can link this to my Facebook maybe I can get some pictures to show you just how awesome my costume was this year for Comic Con. They say a pictures worth a thousand words. That's balogna! A GOOD pictures worth a thousand words. My professional objective is to teach future f stopping Mandalorian warriors how to compose and execute better photographs, and do it in a way that is anecdotally mnemonic (ie. memorable) and makes them more apt American humans in the process. And maybe a yearbooker their Senior Year. Yeah. That about says it all for my first blog. Pictures to follow.
Maybe.
OK this is the director's cut added to meet the requirements of my on-line class;
I got into teaching subtly.
1. A government/history teacher that I really enjoyed gave me a 25c award my senior year that said, "Social Science Student of the Year." That's the only award I ever got and I guess he and another teacher got together when they were printing these up and both decided I had a light. Funny...as a teacher I give those certificates very little thought or effort, but one really hooked me. I hated science and math, so I put Teaching on my list of maybes.
2. My Junior year of college my instructor's water started leaking a little early in her pregnancy. It was a private college, there were 2 weeks left in the course, pretty much a review for the final and distributing the final to the class was all there was left to do. They asked her which if any faculty member would be able to complete the quarter and she asked if they'd let me do it. I had Micro and Macro economics down, the minimum wage was $3.35 but I bargained up to janitorial class pay, something like $11. Not adjunct but man...heady times making $11 an hour for 2 weeks. I liked the feeling of being up front and trying to make the concepts understandable. When student feedback said I rocked at it? I was hooked. I wanted to be a high school teacher.
A year later I graduated with a 3.954 gap and no real jobs lined up...a Spanish adviser took me into his counseling and said, "go south young man, go south." He actually said to go to UNAM in Mexico City with an extension program through Northern Illinois University. I went. Time of my life. Opened every door...every door. Within 6 months I was totally bilingual, upon return I started working on my teaching credential and getting verified as bilingual for the state, the BCC. It was some work, but I loved it, made contacts in many districts, Santee, Grossmont, San Diego and then finally got a temporary contract in my own high school district, Sweetwater Union High School. Two years of crazy prep and traveling from room to room I landed in the school of my dreams, Eastlake High.
I got a Masters at National and was scooped up pretty quick for a Assistant Principal of Activities job at Sweetwater High. Inner City, all the demographic challenges you can think of. Beautiful kids and great family/cadre of people who wouldn't teach anywhere else. After 4 years and lots of success at doing student activities, ASB, that kind of thing...I guess it went to my head, that justice would always prevail and that great forces would always run to my aide if I was bold, this did not turn out as expected. I lead 9 of my assistant peers to contest how the superintendent was spending student funds for personal and professional projects that were not the intention of the school's that earned them. They separated me from my school, sent me to a more opulent demographic in the East, gave me a micro managing bully to make me squirm and then after almost a year, yeah...I quit. They won. Went back to the classroom where I have a union to protect my first amendment rights and I never looked back. The board eventually went to jail and the superintendent, and the one after him, all discredited. Big thieves. My dad died before all that came out though, at 98 that kind of hurt because, I think he kind of thought I had done something wrong to take a "demotion" back to the class. Too bad he saw it that way, super man. I'm not a King or Queen on the chess board of education but as a knight? I go anywhere I want, effect anyone I want and just get stuff done. I like it. My peers from 96? Superintendents...principals...assistant superintendents, you name it. I don't regret it though.
So what happened SINCE then and what did all those tests we took say about me and my teaching style?
The MMDI questionnaire pegged me as an ESTJ.
Extraverted, Reality based thinker that puts great import on perception. And I'm judgmental.
Yeah...they could have just said Virgo born in the year of the Goat, but it's accurate.
I like the adrenalin of the show that is the daily lesson, the opening monologue, the crafting of a clever metaphor to connect understanding, the story that draws a parallel to the learning I'm trying to impart.. That's an ESTJ for sure. I don't thinking "judging" is always bad, especially when you're a objective judge on your own proficiency, which I am, I try to be honest with myself, last year my daughter took my class as a junior, worked hard, got a 108% in the class, didn't knock my socks off with her photos and then decided we clashed too much to do a 2nd year together in yearbook. hmmm. I asked her to name 3 apertures that would guarantee shallow depth of field and she said "13." That crushed me. Her numbers and grades were great but she hadn't picked up one of the 3 most valuable concepts I consider to mastering photography. So? So I'm going to retool this year. Go at it again, TEST FOR UNDERSTANDING on an ongoing basis with some of the stuff I learn here.
The KISA survey?
Turns out I'm an ENTT, extraverted, intuitive, thinking and ....JUDGING type of person. Kind of like the MMDI survey...86% in the judging category...wow...good for a drill sergeant, hard on a marriage.
The last survey?
I trended towards Actual, Sensitivity, Visual and sequential. Yes. True.
How does this inform my teaching and where do I go from here?
I've been doing this now for 25 years. One of my good friends is a principal and he's fond of saying, "30 years of experience doesn't count for anything if you've been doing the same thing you did year one, just 29 more time." And there's a hunk of truth to that.
There is a staff member on our site that was a 9th grader in my first year of teaching and when asked by my other colleagues if I was a good teacher that first year she said, "well, he had some challenges, but you could not doubt his passion and personality for the profession." Hmm. I'll take that. Kids know whether you drink your own kool aide and I did. Every class I taught was the most important interesting class in the world. I threw myself into it and drew parallels with what was going on in the world via. TV, newspaper, popular music and the media. It took about 4 years to get comfortable in my teaching skin and every year I try to put another arrow in my quill. Link Crew, YouTube, Student Studio, Yearbook, Campus Beautification, AVID, Peer Mediation, Contests and competitions, Commemoration our school's Legend and Legacy's via storytelling, club advising, working with Alumni on Facebook. I haven't tried it all by any means, but I've gone deep into the jar of jelly bellies.
How do the personality tests inform my teaching?
EXTROVERT.
I realize I am one. I love to perform, meet students, get a positive reaction and pull them out of their shells and comfort zones
REALITY.
I love the ethereal and sensual, but yeah...I have to KNOW a thing too. Or know that I don't know a thing because it's unknowable in that sense.
THINKING/contemplative
I roll words and concepts around in my head a lot, especially while "yardening." If the analogy works I hold onto it for next year and it becomes a mnemonic that I'll use again and again to get the concept across.
JUDGMENTAL
Yeah. Call me an ass. I absolutely HAVE to be the hardest working person in the room. Not the smartest by any means, but I always have the tape measure out and ask myself if others are measuring up both in my career, my classes, my kids. I have high expectations. Even if it is "only photo" class. But I really think we're developing more than film in my room, I think I try to develop young Americans, young adults, who may never use film again outside the classroom but they'll use the spirit or passion of the way we approached the discipline and apply to something, anything else they do in life.
What are strengths at finding engagement strategies for All students? Pretty good. I"m not going to roll it all out here but the
ELD kids?
I know what it's like to learn another language, I know how to scaffold a lesson and when I really need to make a point, I can speak the language of the majority minority, Spanish, both language and culture. They get it. We move past language.
Special Ed kids?
I read the IEP and 504's in passing, avoid the meetings but the content is very learnable and approachable to all learning levels. I've had Down's Syndrome, highly autistic, "severely emotionally disturbed" and Ashberger students in my classroom and succeeding since....at least 2009. We've made some adaptions for them.
Students of Color & LGBT
I try to be an advocate and I try to be honest. My classroom is a safe place for everyone, intolerance is not tolerated but at the same time I like students to have the freedom to say what they want to say, even if it's unpopular to the rest of the kids so we can air it out. We've had some very controversial topics brought up, strong feelings and still found a way to laugh and find our similarities were greater than our differences. Sounds like I'm running for office but I'm not.
Just "running" to pass this Ted 633 course to get my credential finalized by September 9th when the 2nd year of the emergency credential runs out.
Maybe.
OK this is the director's cut added to meet the requirements of my on-line class;
I got into teaching subtly.
1. A government/history teacher that I really enjoyed gave me a 25c award my senior year that said, "Social Science Student of the Year." That's the only award I ever got and I guess he and another teacher got together when they were printing these up and both decided I had a light. Funny...as a teacher I give those certificates very little thought or effort, but one really hooked me. I hated science and math, so I put Teaching on my list of maybes.
2. My Junior year of college my instructor's water started leaking a little early in her pregnancy. It was a private college, there were 2 weeks left in the course, pretty much a review for the final and distributing the final to the class was all there was left to do. They asked her which if any faculty member would be able to complete the quarter and she asked if they'd let me do it. I had Micro and Macro economics down, the minimum wage was $3.35 but I bargained up to janitorial class pay, something like $11. Not adjunct but man...heady times making $11 an hour for 2 weeks. I liked the feeling of being up front and trying to make the concepts understandable. When student feedback said I rocked at it? I was hooked. I wanted to be a high school teacher.
A year later I graduated with a 3.954 gap and no real jobs lined up...a Spanish adviser took me into his counseling and said, "go south young man, go south." He actually said to go to UNAM in Mexico City with an extension program through Northern Illinois University. I went. Time of my life. Opened every door...every door. Within 6 months I was totally bilingual, upon return I started working on my teaching credential and getting verified as bilingual for the state, the BCC. It was some work, but I loved it, made contacts in many districts, Santee, Grossmont, San Diego and then finally got a temporary contract in my own high school district, Sweetwater Union High School. Two years of crazy prep and traveling from room to room I landed in the school of my dreams, Eastlake High.
I got a Masters at National and was scooped up pretty quick for a Assistant Principal of Activities job at Sweetwater High. Inner City, all the demographic challenges you can think of. Beautiful kids and great family/cadre of people who wouldn't teach anywhere else. After 4 years and lots of success at doing student activities, ASB, that kind of thing...I guess it went to my head, that justice would always prevail and that great forces would always run to my aide if I was bold, this did not turn out as expected. I lead 9 of my assistant peers to contest how the superintendent was spending student funds for personal and professional projects that were not the intention of the school's that earned them. They separated me from my school, sent me to a more opulent demographic in the East, gave me a micro managing bully to make me squirm and then after almost a year, yeah...I quit. They won. Went back to the classroom where I have a union to protect my first amendment rights and I never looked back. The board eventually went to jail and the superintendent, and the one after him, all discredited. Big thieves. My dad died before all that came out though, at 98 that kind of hurt because, I think he kind of thought I had done something wrong to take a "demotion" back to the class. Too bad he saw it that way, super man. I'm not a King or Queen on the chess board of education but as a knight? I go anywhere I want, effect anyone I want and just get stuff done. I like it. My peers from 96? Superintendents...principals...assistant superintendents, you name it. I don't regret it though.
So what happened SINCE then and what did all those tests we took say about me and my teaching style?
The MMDI questionnaire pegged me as an ESTJ.
Extraverted, Reality based thinker that puts great import on perception. And I'm judgmental.
Yeah...they could have just said Virgo born in the year of the Goat, but it's accurate.
I like the adrenalin of the show that is the daily lesson, the opening monologue, the crafting of a clever metaphor to connect understanding, the story that draws a parallel to the learning I'm trying to impart.. That's an ESTJ for sure. I don't thinking "judging" is always bad, especially when you're a objective judge on your own proficiency, which I am, I try to be honest with myself, last year my daughter took my class as a junior, worked hard, got a 108% in the class, didn't knock my socks off with her photos and then decided we clashed too much to do a 2nd year together in yearbook. hmmm. I asked her to name 3 apertures that would guarantee shallow depth of field and she said "13." That crushed me. Her numbers and grades were great but she hadn't picked up one of the 3 most valuable concepts I consider to mastering photography. So? So I'm going to retool this year. Go at it again, TEST FOR UNDERSTANDING on an ongoing basis with some of the stuff I learn here.
The KISA survey?
Turns out I'm an ENTT, extraverted, intuitive, thinking and ....JUDGING type of person. Kind of like the MMDI survey...86% in the judging category...wow...good for a drill sergeant, hard on a marriage.
The last survey?
I trended towards Actual, Sensitivity, Visual and sequential. Yes. True.
How does this inform my teaching and where do I go from here?
I've been doing this now for 25 years. One of my good friends is a principal and he's fond of saying, "30 years of experience doesn't count for anything if you've been doing the same thing you did year one, just 29 more time." And there's a hunk of truth to that.
There is a staff member on our site that was a 9th grader in my first year of teaching and when asked by my other colleagues if I was a good teacher that first year she said, "well, he had some challenges, but you could not doubt his passion and personality for the profession." Hmm. I'll take that. Kids know whether you drink your own kool aide and I did. Every class I taught was the most important interesting class in the world. I threw myself into it and drew parallels with what was going on in the world via. TV, newspaper, popular music and the media. It took about 4 years to get comfortable in my teaching skin and every year I try to put another arrow in my quill. Link Crew, YouTube, Student Studio, Yearbook, Campus Beautification, AVID, Peer Mediation, Contests and competitions, Commemoration our school's Legend and Legacy's via storytelling, club advising, working with Alumni on Facebook. I haven't tried it all by any means, but I've gone deep into the jar of jelly bellies.
How do the personality tests inform my teaching?
EXTROVERT.
I realize I am one. I love to perform, meet students, get a positive reaction and pull them out of their shells and comfort zones
REALITY.
I love the ethereal and sensual, but yeah...I have to KNOW a thing too. Or know that I don't know a thing because it's unknowable in that sense.
THINKING/contemplative
I roll words and concepts around in my head a lot, especially while "yardening." If the analogy works I hold onto it for next year and it becomes a mnemonic that I'll use again and again to get the concept across.
JUDGMENTAL
Yeah. Call me an ass. I absolutely HAVE to be the hardest working person in the room. Not the smartest by any means, but I always have the tape measure out and ask myself if others are measuring up both in my career, my classes, my kids. I have high expectations. Even if it is "only photo" class. But I really think we're developing more than film in my room, I think I try to develop young Americans, young adults, who may never use film again outside the classroom but they'll use the spirit or passion of the way we approached the discipline and apply to something, anything else they do in life.
What are strengths at finding engagement strategies for All students? Pretty good. I"m not going to roll it all out here but the
ELD kids?
I know what it's like to learn another language, I know how to scaffold a lesson and when I really need to make a point, I can speak the language of the majority minority, Spanish, both language and culture. They get it. We move past language.
Special Ed kids?
I read the IEP and 504's in passing, avoid the meetings but the content is very learnable and approachable to all learning levels. I've had Down's Syndrome, highly autistic, "severely emotionally disturbed" and Ashberger students in my classroom and succeeding since....at least 2009. We've made some adaptions for them.
Students of Color & LGBT
I try to be an advocate and I try to be honest. My classroom is a safe place for everyone, intolerance is not tolerated but at the same time I like students to have the freedom to say what they want to say, even if it's unpopular to the rest of the kids so we can air it out. We've had some very controversial topics brought up, strong feelings and still found a way to laugh and find our similarities were greater than our differences. Sounds like I'm running for office but I'm not.
Just "running" to pass this Ted 633 course to get my credential finalized by September 9th when the 2nd year of the emergency credential runs out.
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