Week 2 is officially complete and week 3 has started. With the beginning of week 3 I find myself asking the question, why? I'm having a very hard time understanding what purpose or intent behind certain assignments is.
There was a time when the intent wouldn't have mattered to me. Lately however I find myself feeling like a two-year-old constantly questioning why. Not so much as to why am I doing this assignment but what the purpose of this assignment is.
I understand continuing education is incredibly important especially in a constantly changing field like education. Yet, I find assignments with little or no applicable reasoning frustrating. They simply are not the best way that I can spend my time. Especially with my current class schedule being what it is, where I have 27 unique classes to teach every week. My limited freetime has become much more valuable to me.
Let me be clear, I do not for a second believe my time is any more valuable than my classmates time. I just find that I don't have as much free as I used to.
Perhaps it is because of this I find myself misunderstanding the intent behind the assignments. Doing research for the sake of research makes absolutely no sense to me. I would much rather take the research and create a lesson that I could then turn around and use in one of my 27 unique classes.
I love history and I love science. I love teaching both of these subjects. I love researching both of these topics. Researching education for the sake of education seems to hold almost no interest for me.
Sadly, if I can't find a way to implement it into my daily life or classroom I see it almost as a waste of time. It reminds me of why I didn't get my educational degree when I was in university. It makes me realize that getting a master's in education is a terrible idea for me.
