Musings from Mrs. Galvan

While I was not officially trying to start a 180 blog... more like I was planning on blogging occasionally, I still take a photo of my agenda everyday and photos just need to be published. Hence, my thought to blog occasionally became a secret goal to blog daily, or almost daily. This wishy-washy goal for blogging resulted in almost a month of zero blog action. I can't just blame the weak goal setting - like all of us, my free periods are spent helping kids, planning, meeting, eating, making lists online, making lists on post-its and especially implementing standards based grading for Algebra. Things have improved on the SBG front. I used to grade assessments a page at a time. Now I grade one student at a time which I think helped to make grading the unit 2 tests go faster. But because part of my plan involves frequent skill checks that need a quick turn around for grading and because I am still learning how to use Active Grade, I can't call myself an efficient Standards Base...

I often take pictures of my agenda in my morning Algebra class so I'll remember what to do later on for my afternoon algebra class. I thought it'd be neato to look at a week or so of agendas and reflect on how we spent our class time.  Overall, I think we are doing a lot in and out of class. My students are moving forward on multiple goals at once: video lessons, note taking, practice, homework completion, long term projects, blogging, and learning new technology. That's a lot! They are amazing! Note: The last picture is purely self-adulation (I have two lovely students in period 8 who are good at showing their appreciation). I don't know what happened on Monday... This picture will remind me to make more signs!