Hi. Nearly 2 weeks since I last posted. Been busy but certainly have lots of things I need -or want- to articulate.
1. Mulling over my difficult (16 yo) student… trying to just keep a lid on my reactive responses, until Wednesday, when I am going to a presentation about dealing with challenging behaviours. Hope to [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘classroom’
1 June 2008
Back again
11 May 2008
More Self-Assessment
Further to the analysis I began making below, about my work, there are a couple of issues I want to explore further, in writing, here. One is the issue of CONTROL. And the other is the issue of WHY do I care this much – enough to be spending my weekend obsessing about how to [...]
12 January 2008
“The Last Post”
So here we are: my “last post” before the students return.
It’s Saturday and I shouldn’t be thinking about work. But I am such a control freak that I need to feel adequately prepared for the “new year”, so I needed to get myself and my classroom up to a certain stage of readiness by yesterday, [...]
9 January 2008
Recent Achievements
“Finally” getting back here. Been otherwise occupied over the last few days.
Got my classroom pretty much sorted. Filing more or less done. Stationery list made up – will go shopping for it tomorrow or Friday. New sign made for the door. Computer time organised for two afternoons per week. Must remember to take a new [...]
4 January 2008
1st weekend of the work year
I didn’t get quite as much done today as I hoped – but enough. It turns out that I have a headcold – it’s no big deal but it’s tiring and irritating.
So today I finished the filing of all the ‘ordinary’ things – although nowhere near as thoroughly and selectively as I had hoped to [...]
1 January 2008
Today…
…is my last day of holidays, so I have spent it in bed till 3 pm – just because I can!
Tomorrow I go back to work, but I am feeling relaxed and motivated about that because the learners won’t be there! They have a few more weeks holiday, so I will have lovely time to prepare [...]
