Goodbye Summer School, Hello Summer!

This week marks the end of a long month of summer school. As a soon-to-be fourth year teacher, this was the first opportunity I've had in my career to take on such an endeavor, and I will say it was quite the experience!

As someone who is used to planning one class, one middle school math class and teaching it 5 times a day, summer school challenged me a bit. I was planning for two, 3 hour courses, one of them was a HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE class. Though I'm certified to teach science as well, you could definitely say I was out of my "element" (okay that was a terrible pun). The other class of course was a middle school math class and was more my cup of tea, I found that planning for such a long class each day and keeping kids motivated to learn and work for a 3 hour sitting was quite the daunting task. Needless to say, "outside" time became my biggest motivator!

Well, as of this Friday, summer school will officially be over. This means, I can officially kick back, relax and get to start enjoying the things I love most about summertime. Call me crazy, but one of my favorite summertime activities is looking forward to and preparing for the next school year. Summer is when I find myself at my most creative and I tend to take full advantage of it! [So stay tuned for many summer blog posts to come!]

I guess what I'm looking forward to most currently is the ISTE 2016 conference taking place in Denver, Colorado. I found out last minute that my district needed someone to fill in for a teacher that could no long go, and I of course jumped at the opportunity! We (myself and 5 other teachers along with our district technology coordinator) leave on Sunday and will be in Denver until Wednesday. I can't wait to meet so many new people and hear about all the latest trends in educational technology!

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