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Curriculum overhauls: What to DO?

I have intricately styled an entire Spanish I curriculum based on self-directed learning. (Please note: I started this endeavor BEFORE mt principal sent us the e-mail with this link.) Also, I cut out tests entirely. W…
Cool things I've planned lately

I spent about 3 hours during my workday last Friday creating not ONLY an example for my next wiki project (this time for Spanish I), but also a 30-slide, step-by-step powerpoint on how to create the wiki. This, I believ…
Debate delegation

After, oh, 4 Saturdays of showing up at the library to assist one or FEWER students with debate research for the first tournament that was to be next weekend, I just didn't show up last week. Of course 6 kids showed up.…
Pop song skeleton

The math teacher who speaks no Spanish helped me. Then I ran it by the science teacher who tried to teach Spanish before they had a real Spanish teacher. And finally I got the math/science teacher who remembers just ab…
Events so far -- Day 3

Pre-Spanish survey - No copier, so wrote questions on the little whiteboards to be answered the first day in 1st, 2nd, 3rd periods. - Secretary got one class worth of copies for me, so 6th answered on thei…
How organized

So I've started my little spreadsheet planner for Spanish I, and I'm feeling alternately awesome and apprehensive. One minute I'm cruising along filling in my little outline of what to teach when, the next I'm thinking,…
Un-blocked

The thing that probably makes me the most nervous about my exciting new job is the fact that it is not on the block schedule. The truth is that I have not dealt with education on anything but the block schedule since I …
End of the Year: Paving the road to Hell

I had good intentions when I said I'd post on all of those things within the "next week" about three weeks ago. So it's fitting that I should get back to the list with a post enumerating all the good intentions I had th…
Summer goals

Re-work Spanish I and II semester calendars in more beneficial order, with fancy new smartboard activities included, as well as worksheets and workbook pages--perhaps textbook back-up--to assign. Oh yeah, and I think I'…
Silk purse

Apparently I was dreaming about hitting some button repeatedly this morning, and whatever button that was in my dream, it was definitely my snooze in real life.So I get to school a good 15 minutes later than usual, a s…