What do you wish you had learned in college?

Busy, busy, busy.
Tonight's blog will be short(er).

First of all, it was a half day at school because it is Wednesday and thus, we had planning meetings after the students left.  Peter and I sat in on the 8th grade committee and talked a lot about Promotion.  WOW!  It is a HUGE deal for the 8th graders!  Apparently, some of the students will miss school to go to Anchorage and buy prom-worthy attire to wear at the ceremony (which, by the way, will be covered by their gowns).  But the major issue is that there are no standards for the students who get to walk during Promotion.  So the teachers talked a lot about setting up some grounds for who will be allowed to walk in the future...for example, if the students aren't coming to school and if they are failing their classes, they shouldn't be allowed to participate in Promotion.

After meetings, we took Sharon to the Heritage Center to show her around and then came back to the college for dinner.

This evening at dinner we were posed with the question, "What do you wish you had learned in college? (but didn't...)"
Some of the topics we discussed were: legalities of teaching, how to apply for a job, how to manage money and finances, how to prepare for teacher licensure exams, when to begin applying for teaching licensure, basic math skills that are used in middle and high school, etc.  It is amazing how much we have learned just in the past semester of student teaching!  EXPERIENCE has been so important to gaining all of the information that we maybe weren't directly given in our college courses.

So now I would like to ask you all that same question: What do you wish college had better prepared you for???  Are there things that you learned after college that you wish you were taught during those 4 years???

PS Send us questions that you have about Barrow!!! We want to use the blog to answer them!
PPS I'll post more pictures ASAP, I promise!

-K