Lee,+J

=John Lee=

Wednesday, August 22nd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Welcome, Intro, and Review Core Competencies || I had a fun intorduction. I didn't know I would be introduced as the math teacher with no math classes! A lot of it was review from what we learned at the 1st year teacher meeting, but it was definately a nice refresher. ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Beginning with BlackBoard || Very informative. This gave me more information than the other session for 1st year teachers. I will definately be able to use this information in my classroom. I hope to use this in all my classes. I will definately be playing with it some more so that I can get more use out of it. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Using Digital Videos In Your Classroom || This was a basic class. I learned some interesting features of the website that I would not have found out on my own. I actually learned something new that I can definately use in my powerpoints. I will probably be using videos to start a class or to introduce a new concept. With videos on the 3rd floor, there are many options. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Parent Involvement Planning Meeting || So many things we need to do to get parents involved. I think one thing might be to get someone like a celebrity or athlete that the parents know and students know that could come out and speak to them about education and involvement. Also maybe get students to do a lot of volunteer activities with parents maybe doing a slient auction on certain things. I definately think we need to do more than just one big one, but maybe a lot of activities big and small. This may be a top priority for teachers to focus on this year! ||
 * 2:00-2:45 || Meeting with floor Vice Principal || Meeting the teachers was fun. They all seem like a great group and a very funny group. I didn't realize how hard of a time it was last year, but I do look forward to all the positive energy and attitude this year. Ms. Sanchez seems great and look forward to seeing and working with her. ||
 * 2:45-3:30 || PACE Meeting || Very informative and a lot of information. I will definately be asking my mentor teacher about all this. Having all the information on Blackboard really helps. ||

Thursday, August 23rd
|| **"Session"** || **Reflection/Products** ||
 * **Time**
 * 8:00-9:50 || Meet with Teams and Specialties || Got a lot of PACE information. Again, I will definately be asking my mentor teacher a lot of questions before and after each meeting with my students. I am really liking the bonding of teachers and the friendliness of everyone. I feel like I have already been here for a while. This is very different from what my wife has gone through at her elementary school. ||
 * 10:00-10:50 || Teacher's Toolkit: Building Up To Project-Based Learning || It was greating hearing a lot of experineced teachers and their different types and styles of teaching. I am definately going to steal some of the ideas and use in my classroom, and will again keep on bothering my mentor on ideas and suggestions and throw him some new ideas and see what he thinks. It is going to be a little difficult for math, but I will try to do a lot of project based learning. ||
 * 11:00-11:50 || Social Bookmarking and sharing Math/Science Websites || Glad to have all the links to find information for my class. I thought that website can give me a lot of information and help when teaching and directing students to different website for help and review. I really like the TAG feature. I think that will be useful for not only me but others. I can't wait to see what other teachers find that might be helpful me. ||
 * 1:00-1:50 || Managing Website and Student Database || Learned to get into the website and change my profile and learned more about the website. I can definately use this information to pass onto my students and to get them more involved and to have no excuses for not showing up to certain events. They can also let parents know about the website so that they can also be involved and updated on information from the school. ||
 * 2:00-2:25 || Reflection Time ||  ||
 * 2:30-3:30 || Meet with Departments ||  ||