Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Why I've Never Done This Before
It's official. Teaching summer school is a full time job. While student contact time is only three and a half hours, the actual time planning, preparing, teaching, assessing, and obsessing (recall: I haven't a clue what I'm doing) is about nine hours per day. This is really cramping my style.
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I'm not sure I approve of this summer school gig you got going here. you need to be at home, checking your email constantly. that's what I'm doing and it's pretty fun.
i read an article once where a remedial teacher just read a book to her students every day for the whole session and they did better on some measure. can't remember if it was a test or in class stuff. But I offer this to you as a possibility.
p.s. You DO know what you're doing mah frond.
Did you ever see the movie "Summer School" with Mark Harmon? Now, he REALLY didn't know what he was doing.
Not as reassuring as LH, I know. But I offer it nonetheless.
Do you have any of my former precious students?
I have not doubt that you are doing a superb job!
Oh, Ms. Chievous, I have several of your former students -- and several of mine. They are actually rather enjoyable, but trying nonetheless. I'll fill you in soon.
And jm, I actually thought about writing about that movie in this very entry. I remember it well.
Try Strategies that Work, or Chris Tovani's I Read It But I Don't Get It. I used these when I was learning how to teach Reading...after being a Lit and Writing teacher. Maybe read a fun novel, and do a different strategy a week with it. It would cut down on planning time.
But I'm with lh about summer school..not approving!!! One of my friends used to say that he never worked during the summer because he considered it his Early Retirement!!! (He was 30)
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