header image

Posts tagged with curriculum

When frustration is a good thing

Posted by: | April 9, 2009 Comments Off |

I keep waiting for that day when I look at my curriculum and am happy with what I see. You know, that point where it’s really good and perhaps only needs a few minor changes each year.  After years of constant tweaking, improving, and overhaul it seems like that day should be right around the [...]

under: Reflections
Tags: , , , ,

I’ve been busy working on a small project for the last several weeks. Initially it started as a way to easily share the resources I’ve been using in my class with other teachers in my building. It quickly morphed into something more. As long as I was organizing things in this manner, why not just [...]

under: How School is Done, Lessons
Tags: , , , , , , ,

Follow then fail

Posted by: | January 10, 2009 | 2 Comments |

I haven’t posted for 25 days. Yes, the holidays played a decent part of that hiatus, but it’s also been the result of the binge of artifacts I had students create just before winter break. In short, I was so excited to break away from the traditional teaching style that I probably stretched myself too [...]

under: Lessons, Transitions
Tags: , , ,

New school, new district, new state, new region. I was hired at the end of May and moved to Connecticut the end of June. In mid to late July, I started my attempts to contact my new high school to get information about my new position. What is the curriculum? Who am I teaching it [...]

under: updates
Tags: , , , , , , ,

Categories