This is still Friday, right? I am doing my weekly reflection right on time then! LOL! The process of writing comments for my report cards has begun, so there is very little time for anything else right now. I did jot some notes on a sticky note though, so hopefully, this will still be pretty thorough.
I must have spent more time in the car last week because I listened to four Truth for Teachers and two Science Friday podcasts. In Episode 108 Angela Watson shared 4 things that drained her energy as a teacher and shared some ways to avoid being drained. Who can't use more energy, right? I also went back and listened to some of the old episodes that Angela made. Episodes 5, 4, and 3 were from 2015 but still had some applicable advice. Not letting negative coworkers get you down, how to shift ownership to your students and how to gain energy from your students are all really helpful tips. I really enjoyed Science Friday this week because they talked about Charles Darwin and some of the experiments he did in all areas of science, even psychology. There was also a story about how smartphones are robbing us of cognitive resources and how to take a healthy break from tech. With the news round up there was a story about how to help Puerto Rico in the aftermath of two hurricanes as well as a story about how nuclear bombs cause so much destruction from the initial blast to the after-effects of radiation.
I watched the second episode of #IMMOOC for Innovator's Mindset that I read this past summer. The guest speaker was Alice Keeler. She was super full of energy and had great info about using the 5E model for teaching. I also read an article from NSTA's Science Scope and it talked specifically how to use the 5E model to teach a unit on waves. I am teaching waves for the first time, and I really like the idea of using the 5E model, unfortunately, my team teachers do not feel the same way. Any suggestions for convincing them? I may just try to branch out on my own next year and hope they follow my example. I am finding it hard to keep up with all the assignments for #IMMOOC, but I figure everything I am doing is more than I have ever done before, so as long as I am learning and growing it is a success ~ especially during October!!
On Twitter, I read a cool article about Otzi the Iceman and how they have linked a newly discovered copper ax to the one Otzi carried upon his death. We study Otzi in my science class, so I am excited to share this new finding with my students. I also watched some Veritasium (Which I keep mispronouncing because of Harry Potter's veritaserum!) videos which I was happy to be reintroduced to. I am using some of them for my unit on waves to help with breaking some misconceptions.
On to comments! (I have all weekend because it is still Friday right? ;o )
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