One Month of Intentional Reflection & Feedback
After one month of really trying to take everything I've been learning and make changes in the classroom, it is definitely time to reflect. I'd hoped to do this a little earlier, but to be honest, there really hasn’t been the time! Not because I have had too much work necessarily, but I’m doing a lot more reading, listening, tweeting, and considering, which all takes time. I also had some personal grief with the decline and following loss of my precious Jack Russell. And the thing is with teaching, our emotions are so key to what we do, that when they are divided like that. Well, it's exhausting. But back to the teaching. I think the first question to ask is, have the students noticed anything different? Because one of the things that I have found right away is, although we thought that it would be easier with only two classes, it actually makes life a lot harder. I haven’t found the time to create different activities for my two 'experimental' class