Federal Court System

The 3 levels of court systems are district courts, court of appeals, and the supreme court. Most cases are heard by the district courts. There are 94 district courts. If someone is not satisfied with the ruling of the court, they can go to the court of appeals. This court does not hear trials, but reviews the case. They can do one of three things: agree with decision, overturn decision, or have the lower court retry the case. 1, 2 or 3 justices can make this ruling. The highest level of the federal court system is the supreme court. This court has the right to rule things unconstitutional. They hear the major court cases in the country. This court has 9 justices who are appointed for life.

Blogging Reflection

I think that this blog is a good way to keep track of experiences that I have had in my PDS. It was interesting to look back to what I wrote during my first semester as a tutor. I didn't post a lot, but I think what I did write helped me keep track of how my year went.

It is important to keep in contact with my blogging partner, small group facilitator, and PDS faculty because these people can give me feedback on my experiences that can be helpful to me as a grow as an educator. I think having a blogging partner is really helpful because she is in the same stage of the program as me and it is beneficial to compare my experiences with hers. We both will have different experiences and it is interesting to see how different some of them can be.

I think reflecting on the changes in the classrooms we are in during our time in our PDS as a participant would be good to reflect upon. As participants, we all will be in the school a lot longer so we will be able to see more things and compare the differences with our tutor year experiences to see how much we all have grown.

Hope-  Has your time in your PDS been what you expected it to be?