After reading a blog post by Coot Cat Teacher, http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2011/07/7-steps-to-get-big-picture-plan-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoolCatTeacherBlog+%28Cool+Cat+Teacher+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader I decided to take a bit of a side trip this week in my topics. It serves as a chance to regroup and reassess all the information that has been pouring into me over the last few months.
In her post, Vicky Davis helps her readers prioritize and organize one's thoughts on projects for the upcoming school year. How many of us have gone through these classes, created amazing useful projects and just haven't taken the time to set up a schedule or even think about where the projects could become part of one's curriculum?
Same thing with all the Delicious bookmarks and tools we have discovered along the way. I have seen so many amazing tools and websites that would be fabulous for my students BUT I have to MAKE the time to use them. I know we all say it and it is an age-old conundrum.
I know I can't use everything I find, I know I have to work in baby steps but if I don't start those steps now I will be looking at a flight of steps so high in August that I will have to put ideas on the back burner and go back to some of the plans I used last year that were only "so-so". I want to be better than that!
Take a minute to look at her suggestions, she even provided a template for organizing lesson and ideas to setting up a calendar of events for larger projects.
We have been given so many tools now we need to put them into practice.
As Always,
Anne
I totally agree with Vicky Davis on the issue of the importance of using some of that fantastic, peaceful summertime to assess our teaching plans for the upcoming year. While I love the relaxing, no-schedule tranquility of a summer day, I also find it energizing to think about the past year of teaching and begin to plan the new year. A lot of things that I would like to do in the school year just wouldn't happen without me spending some time in the summer making plans.
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