In Recognition of Week 32

“Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.”

This past week was the first full week of training, getting to know new co workers and learning new lessons. Each day was solid  and exciting day.  Some of the people I have not seen for over a year, some I worked with in my previous school district and some are new and nice people.

It has been an educational week.  I have learned that leaving a different school district doens’t have to be detailed and told in a negative way.  It can be done in  pleasant, postive and happy manner. 

Week of Training:

• New ways to use technology with the students and and to help with the massive amount of paperwork.
• All of the things a special educator needs to do in the first 30 days of school.  Not the first 30 days when the students arrive, but when the teachers start back to school.
• The various items, school structure and routines, methods of communications and various types of curriculum.

Getting to Know New/Old Co Workers:

• Are you sharing a room with another person?
• Did you move into a new position, but at the same school or are you at a different school?
• New/Old?

Learning New Lessons:

• What wonderful things? What problems?  What are you going to do this year to make it a better year?
• Relationship with the students this year?

In Preperation of Week 33

This week we are supposed to get the technology for classroom, student list and a variety of other things that I am not sure of, but it should be very interesting.

I am looking forward to using some new types of technology (websites, use of software, technology) this week because i want to get my room together, rituals and routinesestablished so that Week 34 will be a GREAT  start to the first week of school.

• Morning Meeting
  • https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/our-hopes-and-dreams-for-school/
  • GoogleDocs
    • a place to keep track of your lessons and what skills, etc. to introduce daily
  • Mobile Apps
    • Random selector
    • iTouchLearn Life Skills

• All About Me
  • Wordle
    • http://www.wordle.net/
  • Pixie by Tech$Learning
    • http://web.tech4learning.com/blog-0/bid/100546/8-first-projects-to-get-students-using-technology (Paid)
• Reading
  • SmartBoard:  http://eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/
• Math
  • SmartBoard: http://eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/
• Writing
  • SmartBoard: http://eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/
• Rituals and Routine
  • http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/free-resources/routines-and-procedures/class-meetings

The above activities are all related to technology can be used in the classroom.  I have skipped over the history of our schools for today. I am very excited to show you these items and how to use them in the classroom.  I will be preseting information and technology at the same time.  The historical apsect of your own school equally important.