Today, the ELD Instructional Coaches attended in-services presented by our own. The writing presentation today was AWESOME!!!! I was greatly impressed and learned more in two hours than any writing training I’ve had in 7 years total. I have always struggled with teaching writing. I have come to realize that maybe my lack of drive in teaching writing is connected to my lack of writing here. I never really thought about how as a teacher of writing I need to have some connection to writing myself. I have not made writing a priority. If I really want to improve my teaching of writing I need to give some priority to my own writing, not just here, but also my own personal writing. All writing is not worthy of publishing, but surely I have more to say than what I have so far…
Tag: time
Getting Into the Swing of Things
This is week 3 of school, officially week 3 and 3 days. But really, academic full press on, this is week 3. I am just getting oriented to the new curriculum and pacing and such. We have lots of help this year with pull-out interventionists. It has been pretty hard to get scheduled and instruction focused while the majority of my class is out. I am hesitant to teach new material for having to re-teach it in 30 minutes. I am still trying to maximize that time with the students I have left. One thing that I have found this year is that I am always questioning how I could have done a lesson better. That is definitely something I have to credit to the National Boards process. Hopefully one I can just continue on my own rather than in pursuit of something. We’ll see…
Where does the day go?
I was driving home and thinking that it has been a while since I have posted on here. Then I was reading Chris Lehmann’s post, Sustainability, where he talks about how overwhelmed teachers are and a lot of them are not blogging. I’ve had good intentions, but time has not been on my side. I decided to take the fall break off and not work except for the 2 hours I went into school on Friday. Now I sit here with regret at how much work I have to do now. So off I go.
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