PY Get-Together

For those of you "not in the know," PY stands for Professional Year and is a sort-of-graduate degree program that only results in a teaching certificate, but earns credits that can be applied to a Master's degree later on if so desired.  Last Sunday (the day after the bonfire) there was a mini-PY get-together at Fuel and Fuddle in Oakland for brunch, and we took what is now the "annual" post-bonfire PY picture (annual because it's happened twice now, so it's tradition, right?)

From left: Ashleigh, Kristin (hidden), Dave, Allison, Scott, Me, and Matt

Only Ashleigh, Dave, Matt, and Scott were actually in the teaching program.  There are a few other people from the program that we still keep in touch with but they weren't able to make it.

I have a "blog in progress" about what I call Teacher Talk.  Teacher talk is a unexplained phenomenon that occurs whenever teachers get together - ALL they can talk about it teaching.  For us non-teachers, this sort of banter gets old really quickly, so I conducted an interview with Dave to try to get to the root of the problem.  I also tried to explain the non-teacher perspective, since if you tell a teacher that he or she talks about teaching too much, they quickly get defensive.  So, expect that to be completed later this week.