Wow, I just posted my Google Teacher Academy (GTA) video to YouTube and sent in my application! Now it's time to get to blogging for real. School's over and the app has been sent.
Now, what?
Well, first off I'm going to go through the end of the year and review the good and the bad. Like this blog, the GTA process got me to take a hard look at what is good in my classroom and what needs improvement. So, over the next few weeks, I'm going to highlight what practices that worked and why and how and why the clunkers clunked.
As I am a AP US History (APUSH), AP Econ/AP Gov (APEG), Econ/Gov (EG), and psychology teacher, I've got a lot of material to review...
Starting with my senior AP Econ/Gov (APEG) students, their final projects were awesome. After two years of intense AP work from APUSH forward, they had learned a ton of concepts and all sorts of heavy duty study skills and their final projects were absolutely excellent. They were all completely different. As a teacher and mentor, I wanted to give them all a big class hug and I'm not a big hugger. I even got a little teary eyed as one by one they went up and presented their unique view on what they had learned. It was the ideal capstone to their project based career. They needed minimal direction and they all delivered in spades! They had come so far from those literally wide eyed juniors who started APUSH with the question, "This guy really wants us to read all of this and then write about it? What is he thinking?"
Like I said, they were wide eyed! Now, they're gone. All trained up and turned loose on the world! The cycle starts anew. Here we go again.
LEARNING IS MY BUSINESS This is a blog of educational ideas, resources, and reflections. I am a teacher and a coach in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada just outside of Yosemite National Park. Most of the time I'm a husband and father who is trying to stay ahead of the weeds and chores.
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