I wanted to take this opportunity to appologize for my small mindedness while trying to brainstorm about the PSP in class.  As a quick way to get the list cut, I suggested not looking at the issues we had listed in the Global category, and now that I am taking this time to reflect on how the past week of class was, I realize that this was exactly what I was NOT supposed to do.

In looking at what I want to accomplish with the PSP next year in my own classroom, I want my students to feel like they can take on a global issue and make a difference.  I think that as adults we become somewhat jaded and it is hard to look at an issue as overwhelming as Child Rights and think that something that you can do can make a difference for all of the children out there.  But then I look at why we are in this program, and the teachers that we have all had that have made us want to be good teachers, as well as the people out there who have stood up to the status quo and have started to make a difference, and the reason they were and are able to is because they took on those issues that seem to be so large.

So on that note, looking at the PSP for this year, my goal is to extend myself as much as possible to try to make a difference.  Although it will be hard with student teaching full time, taking courses at GSU, doing homework, and having to maintain somewhat of a personal life, I think that the end result of me knowing that I tried (and hopefully succeeded in) making a difference will be worth it.