Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Classes have begun and I am never going to finish reading!

This has been an incredible week. Classes began on Monday with our core class (taught by the Mind Brain and Education faculty and lasting all year). Just sitting in that class made me realize that this was what I was created to do and how nice that I get to do it now - because it is going to kill me! The content is amazing, the professors are beyond belief (Google Kurt Fischer, Howard Gardner and David Rose). Just listening to them talk is worth the $5 million dollars that it is costing for me to be here. And that is just the first class!
It took hours of agonizing and discussion for me to narrow 12 classes I wanted to take down to 4 classes. They are as follows:

Cognitive Development, Education, and the Brain

Research and Evidence: Framing Scientific Research for Public Understanding

Empirical Methods:Introduction to Statistics for Research

Students with Learning Disabilities in Education (taught by a man who was responsible for writing much of the current legislation for students with disabilities)

My new mantra for the school year.....That that does not kill us makes us stronger!

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