Well....the last day before another school year begins. I am really excited about the classes I am teaching this year. The kids in my AP US History class last year did great on their AP Exam..hope they feel the work they put into it was worth it. I picked up a new AP Class this year..we are offering AP Government for the first time. That should be interesting.
This has been a great summer...maybe the best summer I have enjoyed in a long time. Maybe that is one reason I am looking forward to the new year at school.. I did a lot of reading and some traveling...just some quick observations...San Antonio is realllly hot, but the Riverwalk was awesome. If you have never read.. or even heard of Blood Done Sign My Name by Tim Tyson...it is a great book. It deals with racial issues in the South, primarily during the 1970's, but goes far beyond that.
The first couple of years that I was teaching, I would have a dream at the end of the summer. It was always the same..I would be standing in front of my class on the first day of school and would realize that I have forgotten how to teach... and the kids think they are the only ones who get a little anxious about the first day of school..
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Slowly entering the 21st century...
Well...here we go into another school year. There are a lot of great things that I really enjoy about being a high school teacher. One of the best things is just ending....summer. Another thing is that every year brings a new beginning, new challenges..new faces..new rewards.
This year I want to decease the technology gap between my students and I.That is one of the purposes of this blog. From time to time, I am sure that I will feel that it is an impossible gap to overcome..after all, I used to use a typewriter for my term papers in college....with the correctional tape.. but I will press on..after all, that is what I expect my students to do in my classroom.
I am sitting in front of the TV watching the Little League World Series. This is something I like to do every year, even though it is one of the things that signals the end of the summer. This event reminds me of so many things. Playing baseball as a kid. One of my wives favorite pictures of me is the team photo of my little league team when I was about 10 years old. I played for the Twins..I was a pitcher and remember getting smacked in the head with a catchers mask as we were both trying to catch a pop up..maybe that explains a lot..It also reminds me of the thousands of hours I played catch with my Pop in the back yard..getting a little misty here so I guess that's enough for now...
This year I want to decease the technology gap between my students and I.That is one of the purposes of this blog. From time to time, I am sure that I will feel that it is an impossible gap to overcome..after all, I used to use a typewriter for my term papers in college....with the correctional tape.. but I will press on..after all, that is what I expect my students to do in my classroom.
I am sitting in front of the TV watching the Little League World Series. This is something I like to do every year, even though it is one of the things that signals the end of the summer. This event reminds me of so many things. Playing baseball as a kid. One of my wives favorite pictures of me is the team photo of my little league team when I was about 10 years old. I played for the Twins..I was a pitcher and remember getting smacked in the head with a catchers mask as we were both trying to catch a pop up..maybe that explains a lot..It also reminds me of the thousands of hours I played catch with my Pop in the back yard..getting a little misty here so I guess that's enough for now...
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