I am trying to reorganize and simplify my classes and planning. My biggest goal for this year is to have my class information where my students are. For some reason my students don't seem to spend hours reading my respective blogs for their classes. Strange. I have tried getting them too join a Facebook page, and we have talked about tweeting, but the classes are always split on which social media they prefer. So I am going to continue to blog and link all of those Twitter and Facebook and see if that is better.
I want to try flipped classes, but know that access to technology at home is going to be problematic. And of course it is completely new for me and there will be a learning curve.
I am thinking of modifying interactive notebooks this year to allow freshman to have 3 ring binders (they are responsible for) so that we can include more handouts, tests and quizzes more easily. And the biggest change is me providing partial notes to allow more time for activities, labs and class discussions.
AP bio is turning me into knots. New curriculum + ridiculously low test scores + late AP summer institute = STRESS!
Last I heard I am teaching Forensics this year will be a completely new prep. I have started on it, but I haven't seen the finial master schedule yet, so I am reluctant to progress much.
I am trying to decide if I want to decide if I want separate blogs for each class, or combine everything into one blog and use tags to separate things.
I am also planning on utilizing google calendar for classes which kids and parents can subscribe to. And google forms for tests or quizzes and flubaroo for grading those online quizzes.
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