It took me awhile to jump on the Pinterest bandwagon. Then when I did, I was disorganized and confused. And overwhelmed. Definitely overwhelmed.
I feel like I have finally gotten my Pinterest wings...as a teacher anyway.
About a month before school ended, I started planning next year. Don't we all? Here's the thing though, this year was my first year at a new school in a new job with a new role I had never had before. So I jumped in and floundered. I made it work, but I wasn't in love with what I was doing. I knew I could do better but the reality was that I was just trying to get by.
For this coming year, I feel like I have a better grasp on exactly what I want to do with my students and how I want to approach it. Granted, I'm fully willing to accept that once life starts, I may flounder yet again and need to just get by. However, until then...I have Pinterest! And I am pinning away!
Let me go ahead and give you just a very small sneak peak (because I'm just not done) into my plans and then I'll show you the board that goes with it! Each month, I'm focusing on a skill or tool that will help my students with their homeroom assignments. In order to learn the skill or tool, we will work on a whole class assignment that is linked to Catholic Identity (we're at a Catholic school soo....). Once that assignment has been completed, the students will have a menu of choices of projects they would like to do.
The first full month (Sept) of school, we are going to be working on Digital Citizenship. I haven't come up with the Catholic Identity assignment yet, but I'm thinking something to do with the 10 Commandments. But I need to teach my students about all the pieces that fall under the umbrella of Digital Citizenship. I need to figure out what the bulletin board will look like. I need to have ideas for the menu.
ENTER PINTEREST!
For me, I just knew that I had to be selective about what I pinned because I would get overwhelmed and never look at it again if I pinned too much. I needed to be realistic about my pinning choices. These are for 5th-8th graders...they will not appreciate the ADORABLE ideas for primary students. I also needed to be realistic for me. I am not going to spend 10 hours crafting. I'll be lucky if I max out at 2 hours. However, if I can make it in Google...I will spend hours doing that!
So now I have my guidelines, I have my framework, and I have my Pinterest. I'm ready to go!
No comments:
Post a Comment