I was reflecting tonight on the two classes that I took to renew my license. I think the state runs quite a racket by requiring teacher to continue to shell out hundreds of dollars each licensing cycle to just keep teaching, but I digress.
The first class was about designing motivation. I was glad to find out that I already do a lot of what was suggested, but I did come up with a few new ideas to try out. The second class was about classroom management (and that creativity and a multiple-intelligences approach will eliminate many behavioral issues), and I came up with several ideas to use during the ROMEO AND JULIET unit, as well as the TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD unit.
As I was mulling over these new ideas, I became nauseated: School starts in three weeks. Gah.
For the next three weeks I'll try to get organized...so that when I hit that first week of meeting after meeting, I'll still remember that I actually took two classes and developed some new ideas.
