Matt

DAY 4

I have a renewed hope today as I achieved success in my Unit plan. Today also I got my head around many of things that I was having problems with.

Thank you for the great sessions Anne.

DAY 3 PLEASE LOOK AT THE TWO DOCUMENTS

Today I found interesting, but I think it was much more to do with personal reasons. I find that I am circling around the topics and not understanding them as clearly as I did on the first day. I can see great uses for them, but I believe that it would take some getting use to, to actually use in the class room. My other concern is that I find when I use tools that other teachers aren't using in secondary that often I'm fighting an up hill battle as the students don't know how to use them as other teachers aren't using them, they don't want to (well some times).

Thank you for your understanding today Anne.

With thanks

Matt

DAY 2



My thoughts and feelings about day 2 Well firstly it would be wonderful to have this amount of time at school to plan. It is really nice to sit there and work on the project for such a length of time. That said I would probably like some more assistance to keep me on task, I can get easily distracted. But I rarely got off task so I was happy (and even when I was off task - it was on task as it was research for the project).

The food was incredibly disappointing today. Yes I eat alot.

But all in all - it's been good : )

DAY 1 What has been the most interesting idea? Not the most interesting idea, but the idea I engaged with the most was the lesson plan format. Earlier in the year I was managing to do a lesson plan for each class and I really enjoyed it as it gave my teaching an incredible amount of structure and it challenged me to create the best possible lessons. So I really like the format of the lesson plan supplied, especially as it was so details. The unit plan certainly gives you a very comprehensive guide to creating a unit of work. within the plan will be your lesson plans that weill describe in some way the actual lessons that you conduct. Heather and I had a chat this afternoon and Heather will talk with you about some ways to define and build upon the ideas you already have. Heather will share some more of that tomorrow. Have a great day. - Anne

What has been the most challenging thing you have thought about? How I can engage staff with this material. As I am feeling very exhausted writing this now and this is the time of day that I would be teaching this content.

How do you feel? Exhausted - Warm room, too much food and sitting all day. All the things that make me very tired. I need to contastly move.

Anything else? I am enjoying it, but I will enjoy it more when I can work on my plan.