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Rounds

At the Newton School, we believe in "rounds," like doctors in hospitals do, where we observe each other and ask questions. This is how we've pulled it off: Everyone gets to choose one other teacher they want to observe.…
Pop song textbook reflection #2

Writing the summary paragraphs takes longer than a day...especially when kids have gotten behind, whether from their own slacking or my being absent half of last week and half the previous week with a pink-eyed, cold-rid…
Pop song textbook reflection #1

Do not try to juggle with ongoing wiki assignment. Time constraints do not allow for taking a day out here and there to look extra things up in Spanish, write paragraphs on random topics, or figure out how to get it onl…
I've learned

So far this semester, the lessons about where I am as a teacher have been numerous . I have discovered that semi-floating has not, in fact, made me organized, but has made me run in between the bull-pen (all-teacher off…
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…
I like, I wish, I will, I worry

I like......opening my e-mail to get parent responses on the million words or fewer assignment....my formula for the "Vocabulario y gramática" page 5 stem-changing section: 1. pick the right verb, 2. pick the right e…
This week's count

Two days of rain: Umpteen leeks in the mobile unit roof. Two parent conferences: One impromptu and one to come, With one "difference of teaching philosophy" So far. Three days' notice for a pep rally Before nine weeks' …
Quest for new assessment methods

I first became aware that there was a difference between quizzes and tests in Algebra I in the 7th grade. I knew this because the 9th graders in the class were always asking if the impending assessment was a quiz or a t…
A list of things not so bad

Misplacing the CD containing the song I'd already copied lyrics for for today's starter; I had the presence of mind to bring my flash drive which contained the song, and there were excellent new computer speakers to be h…
Progress report

I found myself baffled by the numbers after the first Spanish II test last week. While about 40% of my first period class found themselves in the 80-99% range (thus constituting the largest "clump" of grades in that cla…