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You Know What? Let's Do a Throwback Thursday
Whoops. I definitely messed up my blogging schedule again. Sorry. Next week I'll have an update for you (and hopefully some photos of me playing for a wedding for the first time!). This week, I decided that we'll take a look at some old posts. (Yes, I do that a lot these days. That and Pinspiration -- inspiration from Pinterest. Just don't have much else to write, I guess.) Here's a fun post about one of my teaching inspirations, back in the days of few students, dark brown flooring and walls, and '70's-style room dividers. (Hint: I still have those dividers. They're just covered in a less garish fabric now.) I'm happy my décor has updated, but reading this post makes me think that maybe I should pull out the masking tape again.... This story about Mr. C was my very first post when I started blogging in earnest, and it's still among the three most popular posts on my blog. Check it out to read about how my teacher practiced in a do
January Update
Hey! For a change, I have something to write about in my January update! I'll take a minute to talk about a couple of different things below that are new.... Lesson Planning and Organization I've made some updates to my lesson planning system. This does not mean, unfortunately, that I've completely eliminated the "oops-doing-another-lesson-on-the-fly" syndrome. I wish it did. But sometimes life gets in the way of lesson planning. However, moving my system from a notebook to a binder means that I can also keep the games I want to use for different students together with each respective students' lesson plan. It also means, because each student has their own page, I can easily see what we did and didn't cover, and take notes for specific things that need to be covered. Also, now that I've got my games sorted into a filing cabinet, life is so much better. (Previously the games were in the binder that now hosts the lesson plans.) Fest