Life is strange lately…

Well, here I am again after a bit of an unscheduled break.
Don’t really know WHY I have taken a break from here…
Focused on DOING the job, a lot lately. In fact I think I’ve been – and continue to be – a bit obsessive about work.
I have worked out, that in some ways I prefer [...]

Another absence…

Hi. Been ‘absent’ for a while. Been too busy just getting on with working and living, to document it. Also had a BIG whinge session at work with my managers…so had less need to voice it all, here.
I have been trying a new (to me) strategy of whole class-work, rather than individual work, and  it [...]

2 weeks absence

…gosh! Really sorry about that.
Been pre-occupied with work things and social things and buying things and so on.
Really glad that I will be getting some Professional Development this week – at the end of the week. It’s good timing. I’m struggling a bit with the new curriculum: not the curriculum per se, but with my [...]

Worry!

Well, I have a little worry!
My manager has let me know that – she doesn’t think this will happen – “but”…apparently, it is being discussed (by her managers) as to whether to close my classroom, and transfer all my students (currently only 7) to another town.
(Of course, I know for a fact that there is not [...]

“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, [...]

Thursday

Had a short day today, due to not feeling great. So I just did 4 hours, and will go in again tomorrow to work a few more. I don’t usually work Fridays – which is, of course, very nice: Every weekend is a long one!
A colleague unexpectedly came in and helped me with some of [...]

& some more:-

http://literacyroundtable.blogspot.com/ = North Carolina Library Association
“Mind the Gap!” http://mindthenewliteracygap.blogspot.com/
International Education Statistics http://huebler.blogspot.com/
http://sclln.blogspot.com/ = Sthn Cal Library Literacy Network
A Librarian at the Kitchen Table:  http://librarianoutreach.blogspot.com/
This may seem ‘off-topic’ but it’s something I wish to consider:
http://girl-inchoate.com/2007/identity-crisis/

Once again…

collecting relevant – or possibly relevant links - together in one place, for future reference:-
http://pilgrimtinker.blogspot.com/ = Learn to Live, about Health Literacy
http://newcomerconversations.blogspot.com/ = Khaled A. Islaih’s Canadian ‘Newcomer Conversations’
http://literacyspace.blogspot.com/ = literacyspace  (USA): This one looks like a valuable resource.
http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Adult_Literacy_Professional_Development