(Originally posted 9/11/11)
It's another year and school started out with a bang. Most students may not realize that their teachers go back to school a full week or two before the students arrive. I had classes for one week and then meetings the next. I put my room together in the few free moments around our other commitments. We had parents the night before the students arrived this year. That was interesting.
The next two weeks are a blur. The students arrive. We teach rules and procedures, learn new names, more meetings, share cope and sequences, try to decipher the new "Common Core," and after all of that, we teach. Most of us mourn the loss of focus on teaching. So much time is spent planning, reviewing, assessing, and corroborating that working with the students is pushed out of the otp spot on our priority lists.
I love my job. I love the students. And this year I have new toys to use. We were given Promethean boards, projectors, DVD/VCR projectors, and "clickers" which promise to make testing students fun for them and for us. I still have to learn to use the clickers, but the rest on of it has been wonderful. I can now project anything I can put on my computer screen. The students are eager to use the Promethean board and many know better than I how to use it.
2011/12 - Here we go!
It's another year and school started out with a bang. Most students may not realize that their teachers go back to school a full week or two before the students arrive. I had classes for one week and then meetings the next. I put my room together in the few free moments around our other commitments. We had parents the night before the students arrived this year. That was interesting.
The next two weeks are a blur. The students arrive. We teach rules and procedures, learn new names, more meetings, share cope and sequences, try to decipher the new "Common Core," and after all of that, we teach. Most of us mourn the loss of focus on teaching. So much time is spent planning, reviewing, assessing, and corroborating that working with the students is pushed out of the otp spot on our priority lists.
I love my job. I love the students. And this year I have new toys to use. We were given Promethean boards, projectors, DVD/VCR projectors, and "clickers" which promise to make testing students fun for them and for us. I still have to learn to use the clickers, but the rest on of it has been wonderful. I can now project anything I can put on my computer screen. The students are eager to use the Promethean board and many know better than I how to use it.
2011/12 - Here we go!
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