Week+8

Not a whole lot to talk about this week. I went down to Columbus and we basically did the same stuff that we have been doing the last couple of times I have gone down. My biggest suprise is how many coaches are not technilogically inclined. They are all pretty needy and want everything spelled out to us. I thought, as educators, we want to see our students be more independent and not to spoon feed them. However, the coaches seem to want to be spoon fed. I guess I just assumed that the coaches should know what they are doing.

On a brighter note, we did learn some more about how to use iPod Touches, clickers, and cell phones in the classroom. Both of these speakers were great and came very prepared.

I also have an issue with how we are handling this whole video thing. I thought the direction were very clear to begin. I just do not understand how hard it is to make a video about your teaching philosophy without using student pictures. Plus the vid is not to be longer than a couple of minutes. This is an easy assignment and people are making too big of a deal about it. You can bust out a two minute video in an hour if you know where you want to go with it.

I digress. We switched to our second set of teachers this week and I think this group is going to do such a good job. They are willing to try new things and already considering a stint in cross curricular lesson. I have a feeling they are going to try really hard to make the most of these 7 weeks.