In a few hours, my physics students will be taking their mid-term exam, and I'll find out what the impacts might be of having 3 different teachers over this first semester. I fell like they are fairly well prepared, and the results of their most recent quiz (over which there was a lot of angst) were better than the students' response would have indicated.
Stay tuned.......
January 24, 2008
January 11, 2008
2008 so far......
I'm in my 10th week teaching Regents physics at Pittsford Mendon HS, and all is well. It could not have worked out any better, including having a fantastic colleague as a mentor - the other physics teacher, Mr. Bruce Peachey. I actually took over his classes, and he moved to Regents Honors and AP physics, so that I have a huge store of material to help me out, such as worksheets, tests, and so on. This has allowed me to concentrate on creating lessons and teaching, and not spending time on coming up with practice problems, quizzes, and tests.
Just this week we've started our individual class blogs, modeled on the "scribe post", where the "scribe" writes about that day's class, with the goal of enough information and clarity that someone who was out could catch up. So far, they have been doing a fantastic job, better than I would have hoped. Considering we are only in our first week, a post like this gives me confidence that we are going to get some learning out of this. The next step is promoting conversation around the posts.
Just this week we've started our individual class blogs, modeled on the "scribe post", where the "scribe" writes about that day's class, with the goal of enough information and clarity that someone who was out could catch up. So far, they have been doing a fantastic job, better than I would have hoped. Considering we are only in our first week, a post like this gives me confidence that we are going to get some learning out of this. The next step is promoting conversation around the posts.
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