Heading into Thanksgiving...

Seems like forever since my last blog post lol!

Project status:

My juniors and seniors have started their first week of their flipped classroom.  We had a basketball tournament thursday and friday and it seemed like a great opportunity to kick start this thing.

All of the students checked their gmail accounts and logged into the blog site one last time to test it, then they were on their own.  Right now, I'm refraining from embedding videos and links to the blog page due to some students lacking internet access.  Their homework was simply to read the next chapter, work on their skill packet and have everything ready to go by Monday (today).  Nothing real fancy.

The next step is to get my promethean active expression devices set up and ready to go so we can do short, concise assessments of what they were to study the night before.  They are already having a hard time with the "not doing work at home" thing.  "Coach, I'm already done!".  It will take some time to get them to leave the work at school lol!  It took me almost 18 months to teach them how to "do homework".  Now I'm redefining it.

But, I have faith...

Course status:

Starting 5333 this week.  Doesn't look too difficult, but lots of busy work.  BAD TIMING that this hits on Thanksgiving week (and the Pittsburgh-Baltimore game last night didn't help).  Wish we had just ran straight into it and got this week off instead.  I started a new facebook support/study page for the 5333 students.  You are all welcome to participate.

Going in front of the school board tonight!

Wow!  My superintendent calls my classroom around 1pm and asks me to put together a presentation regarding my Flipped Classroom Research Project for tonight school board meeting.  Very excited.

I've put together a 9-page packet that includes several visual aids, my action research plan template and my goal statement with project explanation.  PLUS, the meeting gets to count towards my intern hours.  What what we're having for dinner tonight?  It was chili last month and it was pretty good lol!

Oh well, off to basketball practice.  Wish me luck!

Open for business!

My flipped classroom blog page has been created and students are starting to "enroll" (follow).

I've talked to the students who don't have computers or internet access and we're planning on printing off hard copies of anything that will be posted on the blog site.

We're targeting our first posted lesson plans for around the middle of November.