Come on a digital journey with me
Stop 1: Watch this
Stop 2: Read this
Stop 3: Listen to this: click
Stop 4: Get the idea to make a derivative video and song about myself! Because I’m a narcissist! And it sounds like hella fun! Yeah! And heck, maybe I could show it to my [...]
I returned from new teacher boot camp (read: Collegiate Summer Teaching Institute) and I’m exhausted. It was intense, and we did a lot of work, had a lot of fun, and I think I came out a better teacher. I know I came out knowing myself and my craft better — which is almost the [...]
I was catching up on some of my olde internet haunts, and came across two posts in kottke.org which are definitely “things that make you go hmmmm.”
(1) Winners of the Penguin book design contest
(2) Books summed in 3 lines or less
The Great Gatsby
NICK: I love being rich and white.
GATSBY: Me, too, but I’d kill for [...]
So today we start teaching our demo lessons to real students at New Teacher Boot Camp. We continue teaching demo lessons tomorrow too. I don’t have a lot to say, except for some reason, I’m super nervous. I know I’ll never see these kids again (they volunteer to come in for community service credit for [...]
It wasn’t my idea; I won’t take credit for it. But honest, I heard about it so long ago — maybe when I wasn’t even a teacher, even! — that I can’t give credit. But I stole it and modified it and used it.
We had to plan and execute a field trip for some location [...]
The mentor teachers put the new teachers in Teacher Boot Camp through a crazy hazing exercise. We had spent some time talking about classroom management. Then they sent all the new teachers out of the room, and called us in one-by-one to tame an unruly classroom.
I was first to go.
I walked in and one of [...]
In teacher bootcamp yesterday, we each had to teach a 15 minute section of a 40 minute lesson to our peers. And did I forget to mention that there was a giant, professional videocamera following our every movement?
I haven’t watched the videotape yet. Even though I’m terrified, I think there is so much value in [...]
So the new teacher program I referenced in my last post is in full swing, and I was not wrong about it being chalk full of stuff to do. I’m ambivalent about the usefulness of this program. I think I’ll probably get some good things to take away, but I’m not sure if the cost-benefit [...]
Although school is over for my students, it isn’t over for me. I am doing what I have come to affectionately term “New Teacher Boot Camp.” Its official title is “Collegiate School Teaching Institute” and is a two week program (weekends included!) which focuses on skills for new teachers, as well as getting new teachers [...]
Graduation was on Thursday — as you can see from the picture of me wearing my hood above. My merry band of seniors graduated, and that’s the end of them. Yeah, one of them might stop to write an email here and again, or pop by the school when they’re back in town, but let’s [...]
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