Information Overload
Students today have so much more content to learn, more skills to practice and schedules to remember. In my classroom I have students who get pulled out for speech on Tuesdays and Thursdays during specials and, students who have ESE classes on Mondays and Fridays. Then are a few students who go with one after school Title 1 tutoring company on Monday Wednesdays and another group who go on Tuesday and Thursdays after school. To top it off, most of the students who get pulled out or are signed up for tutoring don’t want to go. Then they tell lies that they don’t have to go anymore, it’s very confusing and frustrating trying to keep up with each student. I underst

DOE
My school is an F school because of the number of students who failed the FCAT with a 1 or 2 on both Math and Science. Because we are an F school the Florida Department of Education come to visit our school to make sure we are following the pacing guide, and are complying with DOE’s non n

Safety Patrol
It's amazing how a neon yellow belt can change a students attitude. Our class handed out the Safety Patrol belts a few weeks ago to those students who completed the a

E.T. Phone Home
Today I made my first phone call home..................Da Da Daaaaaaaa !I was nervous while dialing those numbers and crossing my fingers that I got the answering machine. I had an irrational fear that the parents would ridicule me and defend their child.The first phone call went to voice mail, I sta

Know Your States ?
The geography lesson went very well and I hadn’t planned it at all!I used the resources in the classroom,websites with interactive games, and puzzles that I had prior experience with to pull it off.What happened was that Mrs. C took away the recess for the entire class but didn’t have anything planned for the tim