Archive for the ‘teaching’ Category

Conferences

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Last night I spent 3.5 hours after school in my room for parent teacher conferences, and it was a record breaking night. I only had two conferences last night, a new low record for me. Usually the spring parent teacher conferences are slower, but I have never had a single digit number before, let alone [...]

Laptop vs. Paper and Pencil

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

I found the following example or the use of technology against more traditional tools at Edutechie.com and it makes a lot of sense.
Let’s have a little competition at school and get ready for the
future. I will use a laptop and you will use paper and pencil. Are you
ready…?
I will access up-to-date information - you [...]

What gets measured gets done!

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

I was at an inservice on Monday and the presenters used this phrase as part of their presentation. When I first heard it, I knew that it was true based on my experiences.
Is this human nature, or is this a rising epidemic that needs to be changed?
What do you think?

What is the hardest part of being a teacher?

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

While I was driving to work this morning, I was trying to think of some interesting topics that I could place on my blog that would be relevant and possible interesting to those who would read them.
So I started thinking about my first year of teaching and how it was such a shock or being [...]