Coaching

So after 6 years I returned to coaching high school soccer. I am proud of the JV girls and how they fought to the end. Running hard and under control with your head up is not always easy but when you put in effort it will come. These girls put in the effort and I hope they will bring a win home next game.

This makes me realize how much I extend myself. I feel better when I put myself into everything i do. I realize I am at the school a lot. I have the energy along with the feeling that everyone should succeed. I cringe when a student gets hurt on the field or embarrassed by strange unfortunates that life throws at everyone. I hope all kids feel a part.

Kids should feel a part of something at high school. Today a parent told me that because of what I told her oldest son, her youngest son is already being inundated with a message. The older brother tells the younger brother to be a part of some sport or club while in school. Public school needs that kind of involvement. The new movie "Waiting for Superman" is a documentary that will show the current state of public schools and how schools effect towns. That's all I will report until I see it. "Time" mag. makes it seem like it is well thought out.

Summer Movies Explode

This weekend will mark the climax to a surprisingly fantastic summer of films. I thought would be mediocre with no Potter, X-Men, Star Wars or action movie franchise. Instead the movies where nice, sentimental and fun. Number one Despciable Me, Number 2 Inception, Number three Toy Story. Honorable mention for Salt and The Other Guys. Oh and Don't forget the big weekend this week end. The Expendibles, Eat Pray Love, and Scott Pilgrim. Something for everyone.

Teaching MCAS Project Period C and E

Theme Song at beginning

B - Waffles
Toy Car
Bicycles
Theme- soundtrack
Slogan
CD of music
Chain link fence
Hang a piece of paper
Hit Whiffle balls
Waffle house chocolate chips/strawberry

Lessons:
Coordinate Plane - Waffle morning
Area/ Perimeter – Waffle area – Perimeter Tape measure
Fractions – Recipe
Median – Hoedown

Someone told me

If you work yourself to the limit and giv eyour all, then you will see what you are capable of accomplishing. Never be satisfied with less than your best. You know when you feel something is your best because you will be proud of it.

I know people like this and they make me want to be better.

Great National Honors Society

My Teaching Philosphy is growing

I see the positives in people rather than differences.

The positives I speak of are easy to find. It makes for good classes and good times.

In my courses I always stress effort, but I also speak to finding positives.

Proportionally I want the right mix of questions and group work. Ideally lessons are learned everyday and every way. Effort is the actually not how you get through the journey, it is the journey. I want to be smarter and better than I was yesterday.

Proportion Problem.

Erasers

An eraser is the most vital tool a student can carry. In education you either have it or you don't. Sometimes you need to get things right without making mistakes but not in education.

Even on a movie set, I watched a documentary that showed a director acting numerous camera and microphone men how to improve a shot. JJ Abrams

Erase your fears and look at a world where we all learn from our mistakes. As a professional teacher and student myself, I feel free to make mistakes I can learn from and I see how mistakes are sometimes thrust upon those who least expect it. Like a student who thinks they aced a test only to get a D because they used the wrong formula.

Lean into the discomfort. And then start over again each daynew. Now clean off your out look.