What a Wonderful Week!
I had a fabulous week! It began Tuesday with a 6th grade math class. I taught 3 classes of Scientific Notation using the SmartBoard, except our SmartBoard was on the flitz. So, I used the SmartBoard notebook to teach. What fun! The kids were great and I enjoyed ‘riding the bicycle’ again. The teacher wanted to see a lesson using the SmartBoard. She was excited and eager to learn. After watching me teach her classes, she taught a lesson on order of operations the next day. I sure do love my job!
Wednesday took me to an 8th grade Language Arts class. In that class, I taught word processing using the new laptops. I was surprised at the number of kids who had no idea how to use a word processing program. Makes me wonder, have these kids not had any computer classes? They are in 8th grade, shouldn’t they have been using word processing for several years? Hmmmm…..
On Thursday and Friday, I worked with my old partner’s resource Language Arts classes on wikis. It was a lot of fun working with Cynthia again. I sure have missed our interaction. These kids are the kiddos that are more than a year advanced. I sure learned a lot! The 8th graders were ready and willing to jump right in. Most of them, had made wikis in 7th grade so there was only a little instruction needed. The 7th graders were excited because most had heard of wikis, but didn’t know how to make them. The 6th graders had the lowest amount of patience I have ever seen in students. Must be a sign of the digital natives. They had no fear of trying new ideas and soon were off and running.
I sure did enjoy working with the kids again. I love my new position, but I miss having a group of kiddos to call mine. You have a special relationship with kids when you teach. I’ve always told my students that once you were “mine” you’d always be a part of me. I miss that, but hope that I can reach more kids in my new position.
Until next time ~ Danita
