fizzled out and over?

fizzled out and over?
April 19th, 2008 by ckennedy

I dropped the ball so to speak during the year on keeping up with a post each six weeks. I’m hoping my teacher will overlook this and give me course credit anyway.

I’ll blame him for my stopping of posting anyway. Craig assessed the study findings earlier and I think he hit the nail on the head. I believe there is no”one glove fits all” curriculum.

I believe that one of the coaches I worked for had it best figured out. Create a folder of the topics in your content area. When new curriculum comes your way, evaluate it and decide if it is worth the effort required to yield equal or (preferably) better results. I would argue that if it isn’t better there isn’t a need for change for the sake of change, don’t worry with that new lesson and move on. If the lesson seems promising take that and put it into your folder for the given topic.

I understand that I need multiple ways to teach a concept. Year to year and even class period to class period might dictate a different methodology. One of the labs I do each year, and would argue that it is the best one I have found for that particular concept, was in a textbook published in 1991. I have seen other labs, but continue to use this one.

I have started scanning in overhead transparencies, I have some really great ones, so that I can use them digitally in the future. I’m not even sure my overhead projector still works. I have a set of slides that I use each year, I really need to convert them to some digital image because there is exactly one slide projector on my campus. I am attempting to begin migration from a hard copy folder to an electronic copy as the electronic seems easier to organize and maybe easier to pick and choose from.

Maybe I’ll be able to create the perfect science curriculum and make a fortune. On second thought, I think I’ll just work up some sort of semi-entertaining and semi-improve your TAKS scores staff development show, take it on the road because… the road goes on forever