3 more days til spring break...

Is it really a break or a transference of time to another slew of work. There are so many little things to do I don't know where to start. Time is the enemy all of a sudden. When I chose my units to do for my practicum it was off last years timeline. But teaching the first practicum pushed my time line back and now I'll be lucky to teach the next one before it is due! Yikes! I have a reputation and sanity to uphold. I've completely stopped worrying about covering the SOLs, now I just want to get through my practicum.

I know we've been here many times, so much to do and way to little time. We've worked through it before, and will this time too. :) Besides, we all pass, right? :)

Life before... and after?... ITS?

Here I am sitting in a hotel room in Valley Forge, VA, working on my Practicum and Portfolio. What did I used to do on these hockey weekends before this class? It is at this point that I wonder how I'll get it all done, but know that it will happen. As cut backs and salary freezes happen at school there is more talk to "working to the contract". Our school is discussing stopping EPED pay. One of the school board members hopes we will just volunteer our time. Keep hoping. Suppose I should be happy I have a job. I'll work on that.
This will make you happy, our soft deadline for the first practicum was last weeks class. I missed it. I'm still fussing with it. Oh well. Anyone else having issues? I'm getting to the point where I just need to turn it in, but I don't want Priscilla to have to read garbage.

So this post was nonsense, sorry, not much to respond to!

Blogging lesson plans

Boy, do I love snow days. So I finished my two lesson plans today, now only the huge chunks left, like the practicum and portfolio....ugh. But as I was creating my blogging lesson plan, I am having a difficult time coming up with the exit experience part. So, since no one is really posting, thought I'd give you guys something meaty to chew on. My authentic problem is as a worker for antique roadshow you've decided to begin a blog on Depresison era artifacts. This will allow your patrons and fellow experts to learn and add comments. I've required students to post three entries with pictures, description of how related to era and a probing question. I've also required them to comment on three of their colleagues blogs. Sooo.... exit problem? I put down for now that we'd review them as a class, but I know that is way weak. Any ideas?