I have to stop and take a moment to say that I am simply amazed at how much I have learned over this summer! I also have to thank Crystal Kirch ( Flipping With Kirch) for the 1st webinar she did on Sophia.org. It was that recorded webinar in May that I watched in my classroom after school one day that started this whole new learning revolution for me!
For me "The Flipped Classroom" has been all about flipping the vision of what my classroom looks like and how I teach, not just recording a video for homework and practice in class.
With 21 days still to go, I don't know if this year will be a success with the new things I am implementing. However I do know for sure that it will have to be much better than the way I've done things for the past two years.
I still haven't gotten into the nitty gritty of lesson plans yet. For some reason I can't do that until I have my class lists. One of the nice things about my small charter school is that I know almost all of the students. I know my incoming 8th graders very well since I had them last year, and I know my incoming 7ths pretty well. Tomorrow I go into school to set up the new school year on our school management system, closing out last year and putting students into their new homerooms. I found out that my school just hired a new IT guy, so I wonder if I will get to this next year-I really like this little task LOL. Anyway, its a mental thing with me, I need to see their faces and think about their personalities before I plan the lessons.
Well, off to set up for my kids Swim Banquet...one of my official hallmarks of the end of summer!
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