tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144565.post115517720890845599..comments2023-07-14T05:36:36.786-07:00Comments on Of Life, Education, E-bay, Travel & Books: What Fresh Hell Is This?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17333382268292453140noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144565.post-1156623412903694162006-08-26T13:16:00.000-07:002006-08-26T13:16:00.000-07:00Perfect title! It amazes me that they want you to...Perfect title! It amazes me that they want you to teach glorious lessons but allow no time for planning. I received word 3 days before school started that night school was moving into our building and wanted my room. So I had to move to the empty room 2 doors down. I ask you, wouldn't it make more sense for night school to move into the empty room. School administrators are short on sense, have you noticed?<BR/><BR/>Hope you have a good year.Bookloggedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00651016653247142255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144565.post-1156299014664049362006-08-22T19:10:00.000-07:002006-08-22T19:10:00.000-07:00Just received our agenda for Thursday, our first d...Just received our agenda for Thursday, our first day back.<BR/><BR/>Mercifully, both teacher days are spent in meetings and preparation at our own school. No Division-wide inservice - hooray!Library Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07175070463632523228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144565.post-1156098686482707362006-08-20T11:31:00.000-07:002006-08-20T11:31:00.000-07:00I'm starting to think I have it pretty good. Our ...I'm starting to think I have it pretty good. Our opening faculty meeting is just our faculty, so it's only about 15 people. It's very casual and comfortable and relaxing. I keep reading about all these ridiculous in-services that other teachers have to put up with. Yikes. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, hope you have a great school year ahead of you!Dreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16466238076903428067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144565.post-1155357471672618662006-08-11T21:37:00.000-07:002006-08-11T21:37:00.000-07:00I do not miss those "first of the new school year"...I do not miss those "first of the new school year" inservices. First, they'd keep you from doing the things that needed to be done before the kids got there (so that most of us end up staying until very late to do them) and then they'd insult our intelligence with those cutsy "motivational strategies".<BR/><BR/>SighNancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12629439279545629954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144565.post-1155347810985895782006-08-11T18:56:00.000-07:002006-08-11T18:56:00.000-07:00Yeah, that does sound pretty hellish. Hope the bul...Yeah, that does sound pretty hellish. Hope the bulletin board tacking is more fun than solitaire on your PDA!landismomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10328094347362872558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144565.post-1155346578459294842006-08-11T18:36:00.000-07:002006-08-11T18:36:00.000-07:00Argh!!! Overall our week of inservice went well EX...Argh!!! Overall our week of inservice went well EXCEPT for the workshop on how to take Cornell Notes. This is an important facet of the AVID program, so you want to convince your colleagues to 'get with the program' and use it. Well... talk about glazed eyes, fidgettin, napping, you name it, it happened. Even our Fearless Leader couldn't take it. He tried to convince her to quit but she told him: "NO! Let me finish." He then threw up his hands.. I would love to have been the fly on the wall for the *chat* he had with her later. Can you believe she is one of our school counselors? As a form of damage control, we will spend our faculty meeting Tuesday afternoon reviewing Cornell Notes.<BR/><BR/>Cornell Notes is a way to teach students to take notes and then reflect on what they learned. This helps them to use "Higher Order Thinking Skills" They were developed by a professor @ Cornell University who noticed that his students weren't taking quality notes. I know his last name is Pauk and these were started in 1964.<BR/><BR/>Sorry about the long comments...<BR/>Have a great year!Butterfly Angelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05315628420188613289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144565.post-1155344885263313572006-08-11T18:08:00.000-07:002006-08-11T18:08:00.000-07:00I can honestly say after reading many of the posts...I can honestly say after reading many of the posts about begining of the year inservices I guess I have it better than some. Ours is a faculty meeting that usually is more of a reunion of sorts. We cover new procedures that have changed and we do cover the same old ethics, suspected child abuse, discipline procedures type things but overall its fairly painless. Hope you have a fantastic year!EHThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964668210604436937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144565.post-1155294609164987642006-08-11T04:10:00.000-07:002006-08-11T04:10:00.000-07:00Well said. I don't mind inservice as long as it's ...Well said. <BR/><BR/>I don't mind inservice as long as it's useful, but I am losing patience. Especially with the cutesy-wootsy team building activities.<BR/><BR/>At the welcome back breakfast at my school, they made us create paper dolls that describe what we do... so grown women (and men) spent a half hour cutting and pasting to create dolls that wear many hats, have big hearts, ears that listen, blah blah blah.<BR/><BR/>Now the paper dolls are on display in the cafeteria.<BR/><BR/>I think secretly, someone just wanted to get us to decorate the bulletin board so that they could cross it off their list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144565.post-1155187800253432692006-08-09T22:30:00.000-07:002006-08-09T22:30:00.000-07:00Hello! Hello!It is truly a pleasure to meet anoth...Hello! Hello!<BR/><BR/>It is truly a pleasure to meet another elementary school librarian.<BR/><BR/>I notice too that you have added me to your blogroll. Thank you so much! If it's alright with you, I will add you next time I update my -roll.<BR/><BR/>Hear, hear, on inservices. I think the worst one we ever sat through on our first day of school was all about "Emotional Intelligence". It was <B>so</B> brutal!<BR/><BR/>Good luck with back-to-school. I don't start back for a couple of weeks yet, so I'm determined to enjoy these last few days of freedom.Library Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07175070463632523228noreply@blogger.com