Hello everyone!
My name is Jung S. Rhee. Many friends also call me Paul, a name my father gave me when I arrived in the U.S. at the age of 6. Paul was actually my father's name, but gave it to me to use in school and renamed himself, Peter.
This is my second semester at TC, attending half-time in the Computing in Education program. I have taught Mathematics at a private enrichment school in Pennsylvania for the last 7 years, a school I founded in order to provide enrichment programs and courses to students in grades 1-12. Over the years, the school has grown to offer approximately 60 programs to an annual student body of 520-550.
We are currently in the final stages of our plans in the online division of the school. As you know, this is an area of research that is still in its infancy, and I am very interested in learning about various models offered by other online programs, as well as the ideas and discussions we will have in this class. I enrolled in the Computing in Education program largely to supplement the school's progress; this class will probably be most directly related to that intent.
I've taken two online courses thus far here at TC. Both were asynchronous, discussion-oriented courses. At first, I was nervous about taking the courses online; I had no idea how they would be facilitated. As it turns out, my experiences with them have been quite positive and engaging. The most important advantage I found in an online course was that I was given a chance to think about discussion topics and carefully respond to them after sufficient thought.
Hi Paul,
ReplyDeleteIt was really interesting to read about you and your background in your profile. I am just astonished that you have founded your own school. I wouldn’t even know where to start to do something like that.
I am commenting on your profile because I think that you are going to be ahead of the game on your school due to the fact that you are currently looking to transfer some of your school to the online world. I think that many schools are hesitant to switch or even blend the online learning in their classes. By you starting this trend you will be ahead of the game and the students in your school will have an adavanced opportunity to learn different ways that they will actually come in contact with when they hit the college level. I wanted to commend you for doing this.
I also was wondering where at in Pennsylvania do you work; I grew up in Williamsport, PA.
Looking forward to working with you
Lindsay
Hello Lindsay,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post. I actually work out of 2 offices in Pennsylvania, right outside of Philadelphia. I'm not too familiar with Williamsport, but it looks to be about a 3 hour drive looking at the map.
I really think online schooling is going to be that next big thing. I hope you're right and I really hope that we can better prepare our students for college using all the new technology available. And better yet, I hope that it'll be a tool that will help students beyond college into their careers.
Hello Jung,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your reply to my blog. I am excited that there is another math teacher in our course and I too like the ability to have thoughtful responses to interesting questions about education.
I think that as educators we too often work in isolation and finding a network, even it is online, is a great way to bounce ideas off each other.
Look forward to the class and maybe we can do some projects together as a math educator group (I saw at least one other math teacher in our class).
Gus
That sounds great! This class will be a great way to do exactly that. I look forward to all discussions and ideas to come.
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