I have been so excited to become a part of the writing project and had so much stress this past school year that I am constantly reminding myself how much I was looking forward to this and I do not want to be stressed about it. So far that is working. As much as teaching adults freaks me out its encouraging to teach the other teachers in the UWP- they are so positive, so ready to jump in and participate and give feedback which just really makes the process so much better.
My family is coming into town this week starting tomorrow and so even though I have a lot of tweaking to do on it and a lot of writing to do I am glad that the demo is out of the way. I was relaxed but definitely still thinking about it.
The thing is, I like to teach, I think I have good ideas, occasionally but I still feel like such a little kid which I guess I need to get over since I will be 30 this fall... sigh.
We need teachers who are innovators and desire to find new ways to increase student learning and ownership of their work.
I think, in a nutshell that is what the UWP is trying to do, teachers teaching teachers.
Today was really positive for me but I am glad my part is over. :)
I am excited to try out Kathy's strategy on feature stories. I feel like I am going to leave at the end of June and have so many ideas to start creating my curriculum for this school year. Each year we hope to improve and get better.
I took a writing workshop class w/ UWP, this presentation went better than that one- thankfully :) but just a year later I was so much more at ease doing writing workshop in my busy middle school class and I know that this year will be even better.
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