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Friday, October 26, 2007
IN-SERVICE Day
Part of the day will be spent in a Faculty meeting. Another portion will be spent at a curriculum mapping workshop. We are having to enter our lesson plans onto a data base so all the teachers in the county can access them. Just another something for us to do. I don't mind sharing ideas but all the extra work is too much. I'm finding that I need to change strategies periodically in order to keep order. I'm going to have to implement a mandatory cleaning rule for my shop. If you don't help clean then you loose your 20 participation points for the day. The majority of my kids hate cleaning up. Sometimes I don't mind because it's exciting to see them so involved in their work that they don't want to stop until the bell rings. But other times a particular portion of the project may require a lot of tools as well as requiring that a bigger mess be made in order to accomplish what needs to be done. Sometimes they just don't want to clean. But as I'm finding out, every time I analyze a problem thoroughly and come up with a real good solution it just makes things a whole lot easier in turn making this job that much more fun! Thanks NTI!
That's interesting that they are having you share lesson plans with the county. How do you feel about that? That is a lot of extra work but I can see trade-offs both ways. For some courses, the state dept. pays you for developing lesson plans and adding them to their database. That's a pretty lengthy approval process from what I've heard though.
ReplyDeleteHi Dwayne,
ReplyDeleteWow! Yes, that does sound like a lot of work. But, you know, I bet that will really be nice to share lesson plans. I'm sure it will be a daunting task at first, but it might really be beneficial to everyone in the long run.
And, yes, I agree with you about the students cleaning up. No matter how much they are enjoying their assignment, they should ALWAYS include clean up time too. It's not fair to the other students who come in for the next class to have the place a mess. And not fair to you to have to do all the cleaning either.
Enjoy your weekend! You've earned a rest!
Connie