Counting down to the end of the quarter!

I will be finishing up my first quarter in grad school at the end of this week. The two courses I've taken this quarter, Adolescent Development and Education & Technology, have helped me grow as a person, as a student, and as a future math teacher. If you asked me the first week of school if I thought I would learn anything interesting this quarter, I would've said probably not.

I was once a teenager, so understanding adolescents shouldn't too hard, right? As for technology, well, I know how to check my email and surf the web, what more do I need? As I sit here writing this blog, I can't help but reflect on all that I've learned this quarter and feel kind of sad that it is about to come to an end. I have learned so much about adolescent development and how not everyone is the same. Just because I was once a teenager doesn't mean I know everything about what teenagers go through. And the more I learned about adolescent identity development, the more I felt my identity changing, strengthening. What more can I say about my tech class? I'm sitting here blogging and loving it! You can check out all that I've done this quarter by visiting my webpage, Hai's Tech Portfolio. I've learned a lot of cool new tools on the web and surprising (at least to me), I find a lot of them useful to teaching. I have to say, though, that I couldn't have done all this without passionate professors who treated all of us in the program not as students, but as professionals.