Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Sleep is a thing of the Past
So today is November 25th. Does that scare anyone else?! Where has the time gone? We are going to be in the classroom before we know it and honestly sometimes I feel unprepared. I mean I know what I'm doing, etc. but I'm not certain on everything. For instance, I still have no idea if I am going to let students pick between different projects they want to do, or their weighting on certain projects. Because obviously I want to try and implement everything that we are learning but there are SO many options. And they take a long time to organize. You have to make sure that each project option is equal and generate a general rubric that can be implement fairly for all so that a paper has the same chance as a video presentation. Also I briefly looked at some of the unit plans that my teacher has used in the past for the course and Holy Moly!! Each unit is a massive binder! Like probably over 500 pages - no joke. And sometimes I just don't know how it's even possible to make up 4 of these unit plans, nevermind trying to incorporate fun and relevant games into them. It just seems like it will be difficult to get everything across nevermind the added extras of letting them choose their own projects, making up fun games, getting them out and about if possible. I'm assuming that it will get easier for us to incorporate all of these things once we are a bit more seasoned but I guess I'm just impatient.
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I agree, it can seem a little overwhelming. I think it will be hard to make sure that sleep remains a thing of the past so that we can get everything done.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the solution is to research the different ways to keep sleepiness at bay.
Perhaps we could compare and contrast drip coffee, espresso, green tea, black tea, chocolate, ephedrine, energy beverages, energy gels and eating an endless stream of snacks full of simple sugars and figure out what will work best for each of us.
Count me in. Perhaps we'll start at Felicitas...?
ReplyDeleteCan I come too?
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely getting nervous as well... I'm going to be teaching grade 11 socials and I feel like there's so much content that has to be covered in such a short amount of time; it's quite overwhelming. Also- i wish someone had told me about the content i'd be teaching way back in second year of the B-ED program so I could have focused my univ. courses on things i would ACTUALLY BE TEACHING... It's strange how they have us focus on either geog or hist when, as a socials teacher, we really need to be qualified to teach both!
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