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New post on http://mrlakin.blogspot.com, folks... go check it out.
In other news, I'm still here... but busy busy busy. I think most of the tangents of my life get covered pretty well on the teaching blog this week, save perhaps for this critical classroom self-evaulation:
As a third-grade teacher, I need to express a certain amount of enthusiasm to keep the kids engaged:
-When I'm good, I notice this enthusiasm sounds something like Hank Green of Brotherhood 2.0 fame (or possibly his less manic sibling John).
-When I'm bad, however... think of Michael Scott from "The Office" as an elementary school teacher.... yeah, that bad.
ALSO... last Thursday my lesson focused on "searching for clues" in text passages by skimming, and so I wore my favorite ugly Pitchfork hat to class and told my students it was my "special detective's hat"
...I'll let you decide where that falls on the ol' enthusiasm spectrum ;)
In other news, I'm still here... but busy busy busy. I think most of the tangents of my life get covered pretty well on the teaching blog this week, save perhaps for this critical classroom self-evaulation:
As a third-grade teacher, I need to express a certain amount of enthusiasm to keep the kids engaged:
-When I'm good, I notice this enthusiasm sounds something like Hank Green of Brotherhood 2.0 fame (or possibly his less manic sibling John).
-When I'm bad, however... think of Michael Scott from "The Office" as an elementary school teacher.... yeah, that bad.
ALSO... last Thursday my lesson focused on "searching for clues" in text passages by skimming, and so I wore my favorite ugly Pitchfork hat to class and told my students it was my "special detective's hat"
...I'll let you decide where that falls on the ol' enthusiasm spectrum ;)