User:Delbert W. Saunders

Delbert, who goes by "Dub", has recently graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work with a Minor in English and has moved on to start in the undergraduate program in the Faculty of Education with the intended specialization of teaching Secondary School English Language Arts. His interests are multivarious, including such past-times as playing guitar, enjoying literature (both academic and non), and avoiding using, when he can, words like 'multivarious' because he thinks that even though it is considered a word in the English language, there is no reason to use it when the shorter and less erudite word 'varied' will do just fine. 'Utilize' is another example of a word he doesn't like to use.

Dub has had three social work practicums (practica) including an advisory service for parents of children with special needs, an open access drug service (in Britain), and as a student support worker in a K-9 school. These all directed, along with his natural interest in making the world better and more interesting (especially for young people, who he feels are censored from much of the better things in life, like choice), Dub toward his current occupation as a student of Education.

Dub's real focus in school right now is trying to understand how a teacher can construct a democratic classroom despite the local administration's lack of respect for students as people. There also seems to be this notion that school should be like a job, and while in certain circumstances Dub would agree that it has to be that way for the safety of the students, most of the time students will learn more, not only about the subject in question, but about themselves, if teachers would just 'lighten up' a bit and create an environment that promotes student enjoyment. Learning can be fun, and in the current age of mass marketed stimulization via video games, the internet, and television, learning, for students, is not only more effective when it is fun, fun is going to be the only effective way to promote students' learning.