Weekend
Today and Yesterday I have woken up before 7 am. I hardley ever get up that early on a weekend. Usually I sleep until about 10. It is kind nice to be up with no one else up, get a chance to watch the news and chill with my coffee for a while. I have a busy two weeks coming up and then Fall break. I have a after school book study, diversity training, and they teaching Thinking Maps the week after that for two 3 hour sessions. I was thinking about it and we are a down hill roll for a while. Wee have 2 weeks at school, then 5 days off, then 3 weeks at school and 10 days off. Come back have a few days til exams and the a day off, and it will be February and we will have a day off and then March hits with 1 week for Spring Break, the Easter in April, 2 days off in May and the it is June and school is over. I know school just started in August, but August, September and October seem so much longer than November, December, January, February, March, April and May put together.
I have 5 semester classes, so in the middle of January, I get 5 new sets of students, and I keep 1 class of jr.’s. I love the fact that I get to look at what I have done in these classes and I get a chance to change what did not work and add in and try something else. That is so AWESOME. I can do less bookwork and maybe more thinking maps and foldables in to both classes. I can add some labs in my sociology classes. I am getting a handle on the topics and feeling alot more comforatable with them. I LOVE MY JOB! IT IS SO AWESOME! Now I just need to get caught up again on my grading. Where is PG when I need her.
Hi there,
That’s awesome that things are going well for you! I have a question. Do you do the foldables even with the older kids; ie do you use them for your Econ class? You know, I *dreaded* student teaching econ when I found out that was what I would be assigned. However, I found that I really enjoyed it. As long as we did hands-on activities and introduced some fun controversy to make discussions interesting, it was great. But, I did always wonder about what to do with seniors. They seldom seem very motivated to do more than pass.
I use the foldables with all my high school kids, and they love it. As a matter of fact my seniors are the one who complain the least it, because they hate to do book work.
I love your optimism! Your attitude has really been an influence on me lately. Thank you for reminding me of the fun to be had in the classroom. I can’t wait until the spring, either b/c we start African American History.