Two Weeks

This weekend I realized that I’ll be back at school in two weeks. I have a week-long commitment, and then there’s meetings, so it’s not actually classes, but still. Two weeks. I was not ready for that.

On the bright side, I’m actually feeling pretty prepared for the year to start. I feel like I’ve made serious progress on modifying how I teach based on the two workshops I did this summer, and I’m excited to see how these changes work out in my classroom. I’ve met a few times with a colleague of mine, who’s been a wonderful mentor to me over the past two years, and we’ve traded and collaborated on some great additions as well. I’m hoping to get into my classroom soon and start getting settled again– like many schools, our campus gets fairly well used by summer camps and programs, so my room’s been in heavy use.

I’ve spent a fair amount of time this summer also trying to corral together some of the best web resources for teaching that I could find, sites that have been really helpful for me, plans I have used or am planning to use, and lots of education goodies. If you’re reading this entry through a reader, feel free to click through and look at all the pages on the right-hand side marked “lesson planning.” The internet has been a great help to me, so I’m trying to contribute what I can to anyone else looking for resources on teaching English or integrating technology.

We also still have some fun summer plans, don’t worry. This week we’ll go to a pick-your-own-fruit farm, I’m hoping to finally go camping with my sister, and there are plenty of pool hours still to be spent. I’m trying to keep that in mind.

But still.

Two weeks.