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Monday, February 17, 2014
Atlanta Snowmageddon 2014
While I'd like to keep working through Prosser's theorems, I think this is a good week to take a break and talk about "us." Please put on your "teacher hat" and your "favorite hat" to answer the following: How have the snow days and time away from school affected you?
The snow days and time away from school has been positive from a relaxation point of view. I am mildly dreading our return to school for a few different reasons. Partly because the students act as though they have forgotten every classroom management technique that has been presented to them. It's always a battle the first few days back getting the students back on track. We have less time to prepare for the HOSA state leadership conference and the students are worried. We haven't had much time to fundraise and to prepare the students for competition. I have caught up on a lot of school work for myself and paperwork for both of my positions. Getting back into the swing of things will be difficult but I'm optimistic we can handle it.
I am right there with you on the concern for how the students will be acting on those first few days back. It takes us weeks to get norms established in our classes as far as effort and expectation, but, it only takes a day or two off for those traits to disappear. I know the first day back will be recap/review just to get their minds back into school mode and then after that we will be in fast-forward mode for a little while. I am fully prepared to takes a large step back before we move ahead later.
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