Thanks for reading and responding to my post here.
My excitement level is high, my stress level is high, and I am wondering if I will ever get this accomplished in a year...but I know I will do these things whether or not I ever present the project ...so I guess I will continue to stick with it. I am seeing a trend in my personality and relating it to that learning curve. Perhaps I learn best when stressed????
I am here to admit I have not journaled. I have not done much. You can all kick me when you see me.
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So many things going through my mind. I feel like I am rambling here. My project seems to be taking on a life of its own and am getting dragged a million different directions. If I try out all the new and wonderful things I am working on now, how will I know which one effected the learning of my students? Things I am working with are Singapore Math and Bar Modeling, Smartboard Presentation and the interactiveness of that (soon to add cell phone interactivity), wikis and their use in math vocabulary development, and that just begins the list. Feel like I am being given so many opportunities and wanting to take them all. And I will use as many as I can. So how can I focus? I feel like I have ADD and can't get my mind to stop long enough to even get started. My mind even wants to go back to SS and get an old project done. UGH HELP can you just clone me?
I didn't even read your post before mine :) and was pleased to discover someone else has ADD! Whew! Feeling spread a million different directions is so me right now. I wish I knew the cure but I was relieved to see someone else feeling that way :)
ReplyDeleteOh Jan! You always have so many wonderful things going on! I think you need to figure out what will be the easiest project to monitor as part of your every day teaching and pick that for your TIC project. Still do those other amazing things! Don't worry about how they all impact student learning, that's just the nature of this type of scientific investigation! As you come up with data collection ideas you will be able to sort through what impacted what! So, what would be the easiest to collect data on?
ReplyDeleteYou have so many great ideas! I agree with Holly, pick the one that will be the easiest to collect data on for your project. The way it effects your students may be totally different than what you expected so wait until towards the end to worry about that! It would be awesome to have several clones wouldn't it?!?!
ReplyDeleteJan, I agree with Holly. Find one thing that you can monitor and collect data on that will not take up too much extra time out of your day and run with it. Keep it simple! :) Liz
ReplyDeleteI am feeling the same way as you are, and I agree with the group. Narrow down to one thing and decide how to measure it and I think it will come to you.
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