New Semester, New Start

Becoming too busy and overwhelmed with paper work, I let my blog updates slide. However, after taking a "Teach with Your Strengths" seminar through our professional development department at school, I found that reflection is, in fact, on of my strengths. I care deeply about results and outcomes, and this blog is meant to be a way to help me reflect on those things. So, as was suggested to me in the seminar, I will make weekly (instead of the previous daily) postings to this blog. Certainly, there are daily occurrences in the classroom that are worth noting. Weekly postings will be much more manageable for me, though.

To start things off, I thought I'd give a glimpse into how I've been planning lessons for the upcoming first weeks of Spring Semester. My lesson plans typically look as they do in the picture below (backward, thanks to my Mac's PhotoBooth). It looks somewhat like a mathematical equation, but it all makes sense to me. I'll break it down in simpler phrases to post for my students' weekly updates on Homeworknow.com, which I use to keep students up to date on what we do each day in class (I can post updates, links, and documents for them!).

So, here goes nothing! I sure hope this semester goes by as quickly as last semester did, and I hope I can stick to my goal of being organized enough to plan ahead at least 2 weeks!