Happy Thanksgiving

I hope each of you take time to rest and enjoy either being with family/friends or being by yourself.  I am looking forward to your final projects and once again I thank each of your for your contributions to this class.

Nov 19th, Learning by Heart, Connect to Create-Celebrate

Last Friday I spent most of the day in a state required workshop on 'Field Supervision for T-TESS".  For those of you not in public education T-TESS is Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System, which is the latest version of rules and regulations for the classroom and a system to evaluate  teachers. It was the perfect counter point to this wonderful book. I respect how we need to continue to check and guide and help educators in the classroom. I do not agree that more rules or requirements or restrictions are the answer.  The current system is data driven because data creates solid information that can be passed on to other who do not teach or have not taught.

This rant is partly due to the fact I have been supervising student teachers for 14 years and I still had to take this workshop. Which came with a price tag of $125.

You could use lessons from this book under  T-TESS but you would have to disguise it.

As you finish this book, enjoy. Laugh and imagine yourself as a student in one of these classes.
Let me know what you think about the last part of the book.