Not a Boyscout

Lately, I haven't been too happy with my pursuit of technology.  It's not to say that I'm not using tech in the classroom, but it's more that I'm not trying anything new.  I do have an excuse(or at least one I tell myself to feel a bit better.)  In science, we're at the point where we're teaching things we've never taught before.  To make this even harder, we're doing this with a resource that hasn't been very helpful so we're basically scrounging around though a bunch of possible resources looking for things so we can build our own lessons. I feel like I'm lucky to be a day ahead of the kids.  The idea of being prepared ahead of time is pretty much a joke, and backwards planning  is only happening if you consider the fact that everything I'm doing is backwards.  I will say that it's times like this that you truly learn what kinds of people you're working with.  I can say that if I didn't have Liz Blei and Tom Andrews as my PLC team, I don't know what I'd be teaching these kids.  It's sort of interesting to me that I'm struggling teaching the kids the concept of collaboration, but it is going so well for us.  I couldn't imagine if I was dealing with all of this and had to deal with difficult colleges at the same time.  I definitely need to remember this stuff the next time I'm lecturing my kids about working with others.