A good vacation is when you have no one but yourself to manage. It’s been a good vacation!
As I brought up my lesson plan template for planning this coming week’s classes, I realized why the coming weeks (and months) have been looming large in my mind. Starting Tuesday (tomorrow I’ll be teaching a day of sessions for pre-service teachers at Seattle University), I’ll be planning 8 unique classes every day instead of 5 because every class has to have their own performance piece. Man, this year’s schedule is a killer!
So far this year my lesson plan template looks like this:
Classes for kinder/1st, 2nd-3rd, 4th, 5th & Autism
…with 5 discreet classes per day (K-1, 2-3, 4, 5 & autism). But from now on, every class will be working on a unique piece, so I needed to split 3 columns in order to make an 8-plan template. They’re not all planned yet for Tuesday!
Once I get the pieces started, they’ll each unfold pretty organically, with the next step proceeding from the last step. So I can look forward to that. But here’s the lesson plan template for Tuesday at this point:
We just have to get started...!
And here’s the performance plan, still evolving — I’ll try a few things with the 2nd graders (B) & see what works best.
There are still some holes, but it's beginning to firm up.
Anyway, vacation’s over so here we go…!
This is really cool to see. Thanks for sharing it! I hope you had a great vacation! :)
Thanks for stopping by, Maria! I enjoy your website, including the lesson plan sharing last week… Have a great spring. I hope, as ever, to keep blogging. But with school starting, will I be swallowed up?! Stay tuned, but don’t hold your breath! :)