Day 9 Write about one of your biggest accomplishments in your teaching that no one knows about (or may not care). One thing I love about teaching is that we actually get the see the fruits of our labor, now and then. We may not see every one of our students thrive and grow, but …
That is a loaded question. After all, between my office desk and my two classrooms, I have many, many desk drawers. One drawer is a unique drawer from the rest. So to ask what is in “my” desk drawer is perhaps a metaphor for something bigger? Desks, after all, represent a work space. A desktop …
Day 7 Who was or is your most inspirational colleague, and why? My most inspirational colleague is… wow… I feel like if I name a name, then I’m excluding all the other great colleagues that have inspired me. I also have so many great people to choose from. But here goes… Susan Martens: Susan started …
What is a mentor? The word is ancient, and actually comes from the name of a person in Greek legends who apparently helped Odysseus. Good to know. When I teach, I call myself a “facilitator” because I see my role in the modern classroom to help my students come to terms with the knowledge that …
I have no pict to share yet, but I have two different classrooms, so I will add photos and reflect on those. More to come. I’m a few days behind, so this is a place holder.
Prompt number four is a good one. A nice open-ended question. What do I love about teaching? I have this strong desire to start off sarcastically right now. I want to make a list of things I don’t love so I can pare down the list to something that floats to the surface. I could …
Luckily, I started this before September, or else I would be two days behind. Labor Day weekend will do that to a teacher-blogger. As it stands, I am writing the third blog on the 2nd day, so I’m a day ahead of the curve. I’m still not sure why I can’t copy and paste the …
What technology do you hope to use this year and what are your expectations? I just learned about converting documents to speech. I think I will make audio versions of all of our Humanities texts to share with students. I also want to make our Humanities packets into interactive iBooks with links and visuals. We …
I’m just going to start this here by posting this link so I can remember how to get back to it. The first writing challenge is to write my teaching goals for the year. What a good idea. Usually, my goal is to live through each day and get to the next. But maybe if …
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