Unit Planning

These past few school days have taught me A LOT about unit planning.

I have planned many units in college. Every class with Brian Hayes has included a unit. Several of my education classes have included a unit. And onward... My point? I thought I was practiced.

This was until I realized that every day, things change and "mess up" your unit. Every day people are behind, things get in the way, students don't turn in assignments.
But what I've learned thus far is to be ultra flexible and try to go with the flow. I have also learned how to keep learning. Chapter 12 was obviously a review for me but it's an area that I haven't planned for before.

Mr. C has helped me so much with my unit and adapting it to our students. He has critiqued it several times and made it better each time. Every day thus far I feel like my students are getting a good feel for what I'm trying to teach them. This is a confidence booster for sure.

Goal:
To make a better quiz/test.
To finalize my unit as much as possible tonight and tomorrow so that the rest will go as smoothly as possible.

And speaking of my unit, we talked about blogging today and I was surprised to find out that out of both my newspaper courses only about 3 or 4 students had blogs and only 6 or 7 ever read them. Someone tell my BSU professors that because they have been telling us for years now that blogging is the future. But who knows? Maybe the stats just don't apply to my kids.

Finally, I rented the movie "The Ron Clark Story" from netflix. I'm hoping it will get me in a supportive, vigilante, hardworking teaching mood all over again. :)