At the end of each year I sit and ponder what I would do differently next year if I am teaching the same classes (you never know for sure until the first day of school). So here's somethings I'm going to be doing with my summer months:
1) Webquests - revamping ones I already have and making some more for topics I didn't make them on yet. Some of the websites I chose while working at home didn't work or used flash which does not work on the iPads so I need to revamp so that isn't an issue next year
2) African American Studies Overhaul - Next year African American Studies becomes an MSL course so I need to add to my vocabulary lists, and start generating constructed response questions for my tests and adding/subtracting based on the new standards. Plus I filled out a proposal to try and get it to be an honors class. If that happens I need to start getting some books together to put together excerpts that I want students to read (i.e. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Soujourner Truth's Arn't I a Woman Speech, Things Fall Apart, etc.)
3) Projects - I loved some of my projects this semester, but some of them left something to be desired with the end product so I'm going to keep some, change some, and hopefully find some new projects to add.
I also have another round of Pinnacle training this summer, a Tech Day at Lake Norman Charter for iTeach, and a Teacher Institute on Islam. I'm very excited and looking forward to another round of melding minds.
