Back Inwards The States Alongside A Big Announcement
Several of you lot create got sent me e-mails letting me know that my lack of posting of belatedly had you lot worried. I desire to assure everyone that I am okay! For the past times ii months, my hubby as well as I create got been visiting Commonwealth of Australia alongside really express mesh access. We decided to create got a twitter/blogging pause as well as focus on spending fourth dimension alongside solid unit of measurement as well as friends. After 36 hours of traveling (thanks to a delayed flying that required rescheduling our finally flight) as well as a skillful sleep, nosotros are dorsum home.
To brand upwards for the lack of posts roughly here, I hand you lot a photograph of kangaroos at a wild animals sanctuary inwards South Commonwealth of Australia as well as a hope that I volition endure breathing life dorsum into this spider web log shortly equally I gear upwards to start my 6th twelvemonth of teaching.
Another argue things create got been tranquillity on the spider web log front end is that I create got busy equally a outcome of beingness named i of twelve finalists for 2018 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. Before nosotros left for Australia, I had to submit a binder/portfolio that consisted of a resume, photograph, as well as vii split upwards essays. I spent over a calendar month on these essays, as well as then it was groovy intelligence to listen that I got to deed on to the adjacent phase of the competition. As a result, I had to cinema a 10 infinitesimal video that captured my didactics agency as well as philosophy. It was supposed to incorporate classroom footage, but I've never been videoed acre teaching. Had they asked for this video during the schoolhouse year, I would create got videoed a lesson. Instead, nosotros did the adjacent best affair as well as edited the good from my NPR story as well as added photos to hand the alternative commission a peek into what I am similar equally a teacher. I desire to tell a exceptional thank you lot to several MTBoS members who willingly gave upwards business office of their summertime to cinema video testimonials which I was able to edit as well as seat into my video. My hubby deserves a 1000000 thank you lot for filming my video clips as well as editing all of the video clips submitted past times others to agree into 10 minutes. I know pretty much zero almost video editing, as well as then I wouldn't create got been able to describe this off without him. After submitting the video finally week, it feels similar a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
In my essays as well as video, I focused on the importance of opening your classroom to the earth through social media. This allowed me to beak almost my spider web log as well as twitter, specifically #Teach180. It made me super happy to run into which quote the country region chose out of all my essays to seat past times my picture. The argue I proceed blogging as well as tweeting is for my students.
In a few weeks, I volition go to the Oklahoma State Capitol for an in-person interview. The winner volition non endure announced until September.
I hope to organize my photos from our trip to Commonwealth of Australia shortly as well as write a spider web log post almost some of our adventures. So proceed an oculus out for that soon. I'll equally good endure certain to inundate you lot alongside classroom decorating ideas equally I get-go to prep for the novel schoolhouse year. This twelvemonth I volition endure didactics iv sections of Algebra 1, i region of Math Concepts (a course of report for 9th graders non yet laid upwards for Algebra 1), as well as i region of Chemistry. I'm relieved to endure didactics chemical scientific discipline this twelvemonth instead of physical science. I am working my agency through my husband's 11th degree physics textbook at the moment, but I nonetheless create got as well as then much to larn inwards social club to create that course of report justice.
Here's to to a greater extent than spider web log posts soon!
To brand upwards for the lack of posts roughly here, I hand you lot a photograph of kangaroos at a wild animals sanctuary inwards South Commonwealth of Australia as well as a hope that I volition endure breathing life dorsum into this spider web log shortly equally I gear upwards to start my 6th twelvemonth of teaching.
Another argue things create got been tranquillity on the spider web log front end is that I create got busy equally a outcome of beingness named i of twelve finalists for 2018 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. Before nosotros left for Australia, I had to submit a binder/portfolio that consisted of a resume, photograph, as well as vii split upwards essays. I spent over a calendar month on these essays, as well as then it was groovy intelligence to listen that I got to deed on to the adjacent phase of the competition. As a result, I had to cinema a 10 infinitesimal video that captured my didactics agency as well as philosophy. It was supposed to incorporate classroom footage, but I've never been videoed acre teaching. Had they asked for this video during the schoolhouse year, I would create got videoed a lesson. Instead, nosotros did the adjacent best affair as well as edited the good from my NPR story as well as added photos to hand the alternative commission a peek into what I am similar equally a teacher. I desire to tell a exceptional thank you lot to several MTBoS members who willingly gave upwards business office of their summertime to cinema video testimonials which I was able to edit as well as seat into my video. My hubby deserves a 1000000 thank you lot for filming my video clips as well as editing all of the video clips submitted past times others to agree into 10 minutes. I know pretty much zero almost video editing, as well as then I wouldn't create got been able to describe this off without him. After submitting the video finally week, it feels similar a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
In my essays as well as video, I focused on the importance of opening your classroom to the earth through social media. This allowed me to beak almost my spider web log as well as twitter, specifically #Teach180. It made me super happy to run into which quote the country region chose out of all my essays to seat past times my picture. The argue I proceed blogging as well as tweeting is for my students.
In a few weeks, I volition go to the Oklahoma State Capitol for an in-person interview. The winner volition non endure announced until September.
I hope to organize my photos from our trip to Commonwealth of Australia shortly as well as write a spider web log post almost some of our adventures. So proceed an oculus out for that soon. I'll equally good endure certain to inundate you lot alongside classroom decorating ideas equally I get-go to prep for the novel schoolhouse year. This twelvemonth I volition endure didactics iv sections of Algebra 1, i region of Math Concepts (a course of report for 9th graders non yet laid upwards for Algebra 1), as well as i region of Chemistry. I'm relieved to endure didactics chemical scientific discipline this twelvemonth instead of physical science. I am working my agency through my husband's 11th degree physics textbook at the moment, but I nonetheless create got as well as then much to larn inwards social club to create that course of report justice.
Here's to to a greater extent than spider web log posts soon!
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