November 18, 2007

Quarterly Update

My journal/blog is one of the things that has fallen off the plate completely. This is maybe my 3rd entry in 8 months?
I'm on my second teaching job already - and this is as good as it possibly could get. Regents Physics at Pittsford Mendon HS - Good school, good kids, close to home, 1 prep, lots of support from other teachers, another great physics teacher in the room next door, 2 more at the other district high school.
I have 9 days under my belt, although it feels like I've been there longer that that.
What happened to Bloomfield? Bottom line is that I got a better offer. I could have actually ended up staying there - I interviewed for a probationary math position, but didn't get an offer, so I didn't feel too bad about leaving the long term sub position.
I was prompted to get back into the blogging business because I finally have an opportunity to use blogs ala Darren Kuropatwa in Winnipeg. I'm going to get started this week and have the students fully engaged in writing scribe posts as soon as possible. This idea of documenting and explaining classroom work seems like such a great way to foster better understand.