Snippets

I can't remember the last time that I wrote a blurb about my whereabouts so before I hit the hay, I will give you brief snippets of my life and what it entails.  

On Friday, I turned in my Teacher Work Sample.  62 pages double spaced with charts.  Probably the most strenuous and insane project I have done to date.  I had to write a unit covering either Science or Social Studies (I taught about Early Colonization in Texas) then devise learning goals that covered TEKS that also related to the Contextual Factors that were found in my class, teach the unit itself, produce a pre and post assessment to see what the raw scores of each of the learning gains were and after teaching the unit if they were any learning gains out of the students (I'm proud to say that all of my students had positive learning gains. I must be doing something right, eh?) discuss any changes that were made during the unit.....I think you get the idea.  I'm glad it's done.

O yes, I have come to the realization that my favorite subject to teach in school is science.  I love doing experiments with my kids.  Next year, my goal is to have a garden somewhere at my school where my kids and I can learn about the growing process of different plants (ie. fruits and vegetables) and have a garden of our own.  Wouldn't that be neat?

I have the Teacher Job Fair on March 4th.  It's just around the corner and I haven't even begun thinking about it.  Part of me is freaked out because all I hear about is how awful our economy is and how there are no jobs to be found and then the other part of me knows that I will find a job at the perfect little elementary school and will begin the great adventure of refining my teaching tactics to be one of those teachers that kids talk about at their high school graduations and how they made an impact on their lives.  That's what I want to be.  Pretty neat dream.  You should jump on the band wagon. I'm pretty psyched.

Okay, that's all for now. Until next time...