Loonyhiker's Blog (3)

(This is also posted on my blog: Successful Teaching.) Let’s face it. When school starts, we all face anxiety – the student, the parents, and the teacher. It is a stressful time because we are facing the unknown. The student usually doesn’t know the teacher or the new rules and may even be facing a new school. The parents don’t know what their child will be facing or if their child will be able to succeed. The teacher doesn’t… Continue

I wrote a blog post on my Successful Teaching blog (http://successfulteaching.blogspot.com/2009/07/last-day-reflections.html) about the class that I just finished teaching. It was a grad class called Nature of Learning Disabilities. I tried to incorporate technology into my lessons. I hope I haven't overwhelmed them though. I am supervising the Practicum in LD starting Monday. I have five teachers and 20 students so keep your fingers crossed that everything goes well this month! Continue

I attended the Upstate Technology Conference last week and learned so much. I learned a lot from attending the sessions but I also learned a lot from networking with others. People came from all around the state to attend this conference. I was really surprised how much it has grown because when it first started four years ago, there were only 200 people who attended and this year there were 1000. I wrote more about the conference in my Successful Teaching blog and will write more about it tomor… Continue