class evaluation

Just to make it clear I totally understand that this was the first time the class was offered and it was experimental. That said, that was one of the things that I disliked about this course and I fully understand that future classes probably would be much better organized (I hope).
I liked the idea of the class, I just wish it had been better implemented. I felt at times that I wasn't really learning anything. I had hoped to learn more economics and have that backed up with ways to teach it, instead of the other way around. I felt that the lack of economics background hindered me on the assignments. Because when writing lesson plans or doing book reviews I didn't know much economics to help me achieve what I hoped to learn. I have to say though, that this did improve some during the end of the semester.
I felt that the assignments were helpful(most of them at least). The lesson plans did help in the way that they geve me a better understanding of what I would be doing as a teacher. The book reviews helped with this also, except I think it would be better to just have one book for all the students in each of the reviews. That way we could have bought them in the bookstore on campus and things would have been a little more streamlined. I thought the peer reviews were good, but a little tedious. But I did not think the JA was that good of an idea. I was only able to go once, and prepare for another, but it seemed a little time consuming. I heard people complain about it a lot, because they either had to take time off of work or other scheduling problems. It would have been better just to have presentations in class, like what I did on the Great Depression ( I enjoyed that and thought it was very helpful).

this is my blog entry for the week - please give me credit

LIFE IS COMPLICATED.

I will be so relieved when the semester is over and I am one step closer to moving on with my life. It will just be one other thing to get through, and I'll be happy when it is.

Econ - my presentation was aweful, but hey! I made it there. That's saying something.