Why is it that the best ideas come when I'm supposed to be sleeping and then I can't sleep because though I was drifting off just moments before, now I'm wide awake and any hope of sleeping has to be abandoned until I get the bug out of my head.
I am looking forward to being a substitute for a little while once I move to Kansas because right now I'm in a creative drive. I've been watching a lot of videos (mainly at TeacherTipster.com) and I am whole-heartedly impressed. Many of the ideas are things I've done naturally in my classroom, small things that you don't think about doing, but really and truly make a huge difference in your classroom management and productivity.
I keep thinking to myself, why don't I make some videos for intermediate teachers, he does an excellent job with ideas he has for the primary level (K-3 for any of my non-teacher friends) and spends a little bit of time apologizing to the intermediate teachers. A lot of his ideas can be adapted and easily used in upper grade-levels though. Honestly, I don't know how people that teach those little guys can do it. I thoroughly enjoy teaching the older kids, they have a lot of fun personality.
I've created a list (short as it may be) of topics I'd like to cover in possible videos -- the problem is -- personality-wise I'm not sure I'm cut out for it. Also discipline-wise being cut out for it is not exactly a guarantee. I was supposed to blog -- and well...yeah.
SOOOO...I need to think on this a bit more, but I have my first 12 videos thought up, I just need to generalize my ideas a tad, and really put some focus on getting a likable personality on camera...maybe? Maybe this will be tougher than initially anticipated.
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