Education update...

I'm back in school this spring! OK, it's just for one class, but it sure feels great to be pushing my education forward again. I'm beginning a graduate level certificate course called PrISM Oregon (stands for Preparation for Instruction in Science and Math). I'll be getting a certification in K-8 math education. This may lead toward a future math specialist endorsement with TSPC. So this term I'm enrolled in SED 595 through OSU. That's Science Education 595, and it's also known as Assessment and Evaluation in Free Choice Learning Environments. The focus is more on the design of educational components of institutions like museums, national parks, zoos, etc. These are places where the "students" are the general public and they are freely choosing to encounter the institutions' offerings, as opposed to a classic school situation and the approach to teaching and learning that would happen there. I'm finding this interesting and informative both to my work as a teacher and to my other life in which I'm a visual arts curator for a nonprofit artists' collective. Looking forward to more of this! Also excited about math education and moving toward what might someday soon be an actual endorsement in Oregon.