Post #11

Well with classes officially over I had been waiting for Friday to come. Friday was important because I would find out if I would be hired by the church. It came and I was not hired and am now looking for another work oppurtunity.

SO WHAT?
Last week I posted and talked about how I need to accept what was going to be given to me, and submit to the will of the Lord. Well now I am in his hands and I know that I will be taken care of. My thoughts are on all of the blessings that I received while teaching, both temporal and spiritual. I am really grateful that I could teach and learn what I needed to learn. It was a life changing time and it helped change me into a better person.

NOW WHAT?
Today while traveling back from Idaho. Meghan and I got two different phone calls. One was from the Bishopric in our ward calling Meghan and I to teach the 17 year olds in the ward. The next was from the temple president asking telling us that we had been recommended to serve in the temple. What a great blessing I have to continue to serve the youth as well as those that have passed on. Who knows what oppurtunites await my beautiful wife and I as we travel down the unknown path. Like Nephi of old I echo his words when he said, " For I do not know the meaning of all things, but I know that God loves all of his children." I know that and I am ready and always willing!

and we are going to DISNEYLAND!!!!!!!!!

Post#10

WHOOT WHOOT  I am done! Well not really. I am finished with my THESIS and now I am going to start to prepare for my finals. This is probably one of the craziest semesters of my entire life. I have done so much and been blessed so much. I have crossed some things of my bucket list, and really excited for the things of the future. I am now waiting to hear back, from some job opportunities and it really is one of the most stressful things I have ever gone through. I have been teaching seminary for the LDS church. It has come with some hardship and stress however it has been a real blessing.

SO WHAT?
Well with the end approaching for my school and the start of a lovely life with my wife. I have been studying the topic of submission. It is an interesting thing that the Lord has in place so that I can become the person that he wants me to be. I have thought many times, '' am I doing the right thing?" I have come to know that the Lord trusts me more than I trust myself and is willing to really just allow me to do things in the way that I want. However sometimes in the most stressful and important choices of life it is about bowing down to a higher power and doing what he would want you to do. Elder Maxwell gave a great talk on submission titles Willingness to submit. It was a beautiful thing to read and helped me realize some very personal things.


NOW WHAT?
What I must do now is well first finish the semester, and then submit to what the Lord has in store for me. I am extremely excited for the future and I love it!

My Life #9

          So with all the projects and things winding down I can feel myself getting TIRED. I am working really hard on my senior thesis which is going to be about 30 pages long. I am working on it and coming up with some real dead ends. It is about the intellectual struggle that students feel in the classroom that may impair their learning, or enhance it.

SO WHAT?
So what I am doing now it finishing up all the results from the survey that I sent out. It is located here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WG6GHJR. It is a pretty basic survey that has ten questions. So far we have had 55 responses and I am looking forward to finishing it so that I can be done. I have worked on this for the entire semester and have spent hours researching a topic that barely exists.

NOW WHAT?
Now all I can do is buckle down and finish. In fact I have finished that abstract which is located below.
I am really excited to finish and get this beast published!

Intellectual Struggle: Eastern and Western Culture, and Teaching in the Classroom.

Mitchell Palmer

Brigham Young University

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the concept of intellectual struggle in the classroom among Korean university professors.  The intent is to 1. Gain a clearer understanding of Korean teaching methods in relation to promoting intellectual struggle in their classrooms. 2. Gain a clearer understanding of the potential benefits and drawbacks of this type of teaching method for purpose of this study is to examine the concept of intellectual struggle among students in the classrooms among Korean university professors. 3. Gain an understanding of how the promotion of intellectual struggle by a Korean professor affects American college students. 4. Promote cultural understanding in an effort to improve student and teacher experiences in a multi-cultural classroom.            To better find an actual rate or percentage of students that are struggling in the area of “Intellectual struggle” a 10 question survey was sent out to American and Korean university students who have had both Korean, and American teachers in their classes ranging from the first and second year students to the students learning Korean at a fourth year level, as well as previously mentioned, native speakers.. The survey was conducted via surveymonkey.com, and was sent via email to students. The survey consisted of question that has been reproduced with formatting edits in Appendix A and B. We asked 10 questions, with 6 of the questions utilizing the polar questions format, and the other questions asked each surveyor to write or describe their answer. Based on the results gathered from the data, This study calls for improvement in teacher/student relations, as well as further analysis.