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Sunday, October 9, 2011
one year later
ok so i am really bad at this. my first year of teaching is over!
i am in my second year now but due to signing my contract i am TECHNICALLY a first year teacher this year. so i have to go through all the meetings and everything this year.
this year my schedule has changed a little. Last year i had 3 choirs, Handbells and strings. This year i Have 3 Musical theater classes, 1 Choir class and 1 Strings class. I am really excited about the Musical Theater classes. there are about 120 kids in the Musical theater classes together and all the kids seem to be buying in to it. Because my planed 2 choir classes got put together in one class i now have about 35 kids in choir. this is good and bad. the good part is the full sound that i get for having 35 singers. the problem is that the ability and knowledge level in the class are very different. The Strings class has many different levels but we new that was going to happen to begin with. We have split the kids in two and half the classes i take the advanced students out in to the Cafeteria and we work on harder material.
Last year we had many changes at my School we added uniforms, a new behavior model, and some new administration changes. This year we still have uniforms, the same behavior model (not as informed as it was last year) and the same administration. We added this year a block schedule for two out of the five days. On the block days we also aded an enrichment class. originally we were told we would get to expand on our own curriculum but when we got to school this year they decided we needed to focus on reading due to our low test scores in reading. this worked out for me i guess, i am reading the script West Side Story with my students and then we applied it to the movie and to Romeo and Juliet. it has actually been really fun for me and the kids i think.
This year i decided to also make a project for my advanced strings class. I split them up and they made informational videos for the new students and we put them up online. they were on topics like how to hold the instrument, how to warm up, and how to care for the instrument.
i am in my second year now but due to signing my contract i am TECHNICALLY a first year teacher this year. so i have to go through all the meetings and everything this year.
this year my schedule has changed a little. Last year i had 3 choirs, Handbells and strings. This year i Have 3 Musical theater classes, 1 Choir class and 1 Strings class. I am really excited about the Musical Theater classes. there are about 120 kids in the Musical theater classes together and all the kids seem to be buying in to it. Because my planed 2 choir classes got put together in one class i now have about 35 kids in choir. this is good and bad. the good part is the full sound that i get for having 35 singers. the problem is that the ability and knowledge level in the class are very different. The Strings class has many different levels but we new that was going to happen to begin with. We have split the kids in two and half the classes i take the advanced students out in to the Cafeteria and we work on harder material.
Last year we had many changes at my School we added uniforms, a new behavior model, and some new administration changes. This year we still have uniforms, the same behavior model (not as informed as it was last year) and the same administration. We added this year a block schedule for two out of the five days. On the block days we also aded an enrichment class. originally we were told we would get to expand on our own curriculum but when we got to school this year they decided we needed to focus on reading due to our low test scores in reading. this worked out for me i guess, i am reading the script West Side Story with my students and then we applied it to the movie and to Romeo and Juliet. it has actually been really fun for me and the kids i think.
This year i decided to also make a project for my advanced strings class. I split them up and they made informational videos for the new students and we put them up online. they were on topics like how to hold the instrument, how to warm up, and how to care for the instrument.
my choir kids have many opportunities to perform this year including the veterans assembly and school spirit assembles. they will also be singing in at least one competition and the option on Solo Ensemble. I also have lots of students interested in Honor Choir auditions. i am hoping that some of them will make it and we will get to go to Churchill to participate.
My Musical Theater class will be participating in a drug DVD that the health teacher is involved in. the students are going to make short songs that are about drug effects and other drug facts that will then be played as transitions to the information about drugs. the DVD's will then be sent all over the state to help with drug awainess. the students are way excited. other then that i am hoping to do a flash mob at one of the assemblies or at lunch, but we have all year for that! ;)
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