The students, that is. School starts tomorrow for realz and I'm so excited. I'm like a 5 year old on Christmas morning. Sure, I don't feel 100% ready -- there are a couple more things I wanted to put up in my room but didn't have time; I'm still working out the kinks in a few lesson plans -- but overall I'm looking really forward to the school year. I have all sophomores this year, which is a great age group, and I don't have to deal with any senioritis or the bureaucracy of senior discipline. I'm also teaching one advance class, which I'm really looking forward to.
And about those goals I had earlier... The first two didn't really happen and I'm pretty close to the last one (lesson planning months in advance), but I quickly realized that so much of lesson planning depends on the specific personalities and pacing of each class. So I kind of stopped when I got to Thanksgiving, which gives me a good background and a strong cache to build upon. Hopefully all my planning endeavors won't go completely out the window. Here's hoping!
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Monday, September 3, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Learning from Failures (and Successes)
Now that the school year is over, I have gotten monumentally lazy, as evinced from my lack of postings.
But now seems like as good a time as any to list my three overall goals for this summer:
1. Learn how to drive manual transmission
2. Read at least three books in the "Song of Fire & Ice" series. I'm reading "A Game of Thrones" right now.
3. Plan out first quarter entirely and have an outline for second quarter ready to go.
This third goal, obviously, is the most time-consuming and painstaking. I was taught in grad school that you should begin with the assessment and work backwards. I have tried to do this in my planning last year, but it's mind-boggingly difficult. I've always started at the beginning, and I always will. Of course, I do have an end goal in mind, because otherwise what's the point?
However, I have learned from last year, and this year I'm lucky because I have more time (an entire summer, in fact) to plan, and it will be much more specific (and much less sporadic) than my beginning of the year plans from last year. Here we go...
But now seems like as good a time as any to list my three overall goals for this summer:
1. Learn how to drive manual transmission
2. Read at least three books in the "Song of Fire & Ice" series. I'm reading "A Game of Thrones" right now.
3. Plan out first quarter entirely and have an outline for second quarter ready to go.
This third goal, obviously, is the most time-consuming and painstaking. I was taught in grad school that you should begin with the assessment and work backwards. I have tried to do this in my planning last year, but it's mind-boggingly difficult. I've always started at the beginning, and I always will. Of course, I do have an end goal in mind, because otherwise what's the point?
However, I have learned from last year, and this year I'm lucky because I have more time (an entire summer, in fact) to plan, and it will be much more specific (and much less sporadic) than my beginning of the year plans from last year. Here we go...
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