On February 10th the secondary TRTs and I held a work session for the Foreign Language teachers. I was very happy about the work we were able to do assisting most teachers individually or on small groups. I was able to work with April McKee from Churchland High School who was a really hard sell. [...]
You know how sometimes you’ll try something new and it really works well, so you try it again and then it slowly becomes your new “thing”? Well, the new “thing” in first grade at Brighton is to use technology in Math. This is how it works…Mrs. Taxson (my Promethean board power user) will ask for [...]
Given the teacher turn over in the building from last year to this year and the shuffling of positions, we had to revamp our Orchard strategy at Brighton. Professional development has been a little tedious these past few months, but persistance pays off. Mrs. West teaches 6th grade inclusion and we had a great session [...]
Today was a great day!! I went to Ms. Brockman’s class to teach reading. Two weeks ago (maybe three) Ms. Brockman emailed me asking if I would do a reading lesson for her. She didn’t have the topic yet, but wanted to make sure that she got a spot in my schedule. (I am only at [...]
Ms. Davis at Victory asked me to teach a lesson on measurement. I’m so excited ’cause we’ve been talking about my coming to her class for years…so I’ve got this really cool plan: I want to use the ActiveBoard with one or two of the Flipcharts I found on http://www.prometheanplanet.com/ and then I think I’ll [...]
