Now I can't say that I've been the best teacher this year. Not that I've been bad or anything, but I know I could always be better. I will say that this year has included a great deal of change in my lessons. The biggest thing is that my lessons have included a lot more tech than usual. What I have found is that the kids are really responding to the fact that there is so much technology. My kids are really liking my classes and I'd say that has a lot to do with the technology(along with my wonderful sense of humor) I'll admit that I don't work as hard in developing my Social Studies lessons this year due to the fact that I only teach one class a day and that anything we do will be gone next year as the curriculum is changing. I even had one unit where I basically divided the class into groups and let them decide how they would learn and present their information. Considering the time and effort I put into this(very minimal) the results were excellent. The kids came up with a bunch of different ideas and the final products were very good. I even have them wanting to do it again(which I will)
I guess what I'm learning is that I need to keep trying these new ideas with new types of technology as the kids really seem to want to try these things as they are more comfortable with the change than I am.
