February is here

This is a two-week reflection because I didn't have time to get to a computer on Friday of last week.

Podcasts: Truth for Teachers is back and I am really enjoying listening to Angela again while I am doing #40HTWW. I have implemented her concepts of chunking similar tasks, and I am using her list making system for work and home. I find I feel more relaxed when I go to bed because my list is finished every day. I feel better organized at school, too. So far so good! On Friday I finally caught up on the Science Friday podcasts. As always I find them interesting and inspiring. They have provided interesting facts for me to add to my science classes and my Young Surgeons elective. I am planning to start listening to School's In with Denise Pope and Dan Schwartz this week. 

Twitter: I have been pretty consistent with doing at least 15 minutes of Twitter each night thanks to the 40-hour teacher work week. I looked into some book titles like Teach Like Pirate, The Wild Card, Culturize, QuickDraw, Kids Deserve It, and 4 o'clock Faculty. I definitely have a long reading list! I read articles about a post-mortem for test-driven reforms, "genius" hour vs. Mastery hour, and empowered vs. engaged vs. unintentional teaching. I followed some new educators and my son's fourth-grade class. I watched some Ss instructional videos, read about how to be internet awesome. Hopefully, I will be able to tap into some of the live chats I have been reading about, but so far I haven't been able to make the times work with my schedule.

Reading: I am reading some articles about a productive struggle for all in math that I got from my math department chair. I will wait to comment until I have finished reading all four of them. I also read about how to be more efficient with grading writing assignments, so I hope to apply that to my science class assignments.