Little or 2 months left

Looking at the calendar, there really is not that much longer left in our student teaching, that makes me smile, a lot :) With the weather getting nicer out, oh wait, its not, with the weather going to get better out, I think the time will fly by. No worries about meeting at the college for or long days. I cant wait to get off from school and play golf.

Health Work Sample

I was wondering if any of the PE/Health people have some good ideas for a health work sample that I need to start after Spring Break. I was thinking some sort of healthy living unit using nutrition, exercise, goal setting and who knows what else. Let me know if you have any great ideas.

Job Fair Spokane

For all you people out there in need of a Job, I will be in Spokane on Tuesday for the Job Fair. Hopefully some school district will decide to take a chance on me and trusting me with their youth. Should be a fun and exciting day of meeting educators outside of Eastern Oregon.

NCAA March Madness, Just would like to give a shout out to the best time of the year for a college basketball fan. Huskies and ZAGS got both 4 seeds and they are playing in Portland and Boise. I also would like to say that I am glad that Union is on a 4 day school week so I can watch all the games on friday and through the weekend.

Flickerball

I have a great PE game for the Gym that I modified from a normal outside game.

Split the class us to 2 teams. Get one squishy type ball that is easy to throw.

Rules

Each person can stand with the ball for 5 seconds without moving or getting tagged

If a player decideds to run they can be tagged and have to set the ball down where they got tagged.

Can pass to anyone on the team

Ball is not allowed to hit the ground.

Endzones are baselines. Defense can knock the ball down or intercept at anytime. Continuous action, no down time

THis is a great game that kids absolutely love.

24K GOLD

Just wanted to give a shout out to the GOLD group for representing. Whoooop Whoooop. Great shirts, great people, Im glad we have a lot of fun and can laugh at ourselves. I think our class has made this class experience awesome. Just think of the mixture of people in our class. Remember day 1, everyone was on edge, now, hell, we all get along, awesome!!!

Yippie Skippie

Just want to say congrats to everybody for surviving another quarter, I can already feel the stress melting off my back. This winter quarter was hell!!!!!!!! Everyone is busy, tired, and cranky. We all had a ton of work to do, not to mention student teaching or part time gigs, but we made it and it is smooth sailing for a while.

Where I will not be next year...

One thing I know for certain is where I will not be next year.  With all of our futures next fall swirling in the wind I have drawn my conclusion that in no way shape or form will I be living, teaching, working, tending bar, golfing, playing basketball, or hanging out in Eastern Oregon.  The Grande Rhonde Valley has treated me well in my 19 months here, but its time to move out of here.  I have always told my friends and family that this area is 10 years behind everywhere else.  I believe it.  Coming from beautiful Western Washington, Eastern Oregon is a drastic change.  I believe that this area is still a very racist community.  I heard some things at work Saturday night form some local highly regarding community leaders that have made me sick to my stomach.  Without naming names or going on a witch hunt, I heard a local official offer a commentary about both the ethnicity of our president and the problems that will arise with him as our president.  Also, this person mentioned that not "if" but "when" the president gets shot, that things will get back to the way they used to be.  

This person was sitting with a large group of cronies or local supporters, it was not the stage for me to voice my opinion.  I had to bite my tongue.  

I will never live in an area where people can not respect a common person for who they are.  My parents may not have been able to provide me with all the great amenities and vacations growing up, but they did teach me values and respect for ALL people.  I need to thank them again for raising me right.    

Just another day...

Welcome to the Blogspot of Chris Spencer,

This is the first post of a blog started for a "interesting" class in the MTE program at EOU.  I would like to introduce this blog as things learned while student teaching that will stick with me throughout my teaching career.  Things learned, thoughts of administration, thoughts of cooperating teachers and thoughts of university supervisors will be the basis of this blog.  This could be a blueprint of what an incoming MTE intern will learn next year.  

The first thing I need to state is the monotonous of showing up everyday.  This has been a shock to me to have to get out of bed and look semi-presentable to the public and be at school by 7:45 am.  I have been used to showing up for that noon class fighting off a hangover in my sweats and baseball cap pulled over my eyes.  No more!  Im proud to say that after a hot shower, a piece of toast and a 20oz Latte that I can take on the world.  And If I can do that, then well, anybody can do it.  The world being the 7 - 12 grade students at beautiful Union High School.

This is the first tidbit of much more knowledge coming...