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Here it is...Memorial Day weekend is upon us and I don't know where the month went. September and May seem to be the fastest months for me (and other teachers I am sure). The busy days of opening school and closing school. Graduation has passed and today marks the end of exams for our students. Now is the arduous work of grading exams and finishing those comments for report cards. I can see the light but it is still distant.
So what do teachers do over the summer? We do take some vacation time, but most of us spend many hours in professional development, tutoring or teaching summer school. I know I will be teaching a semester course packed into 3 weeks of June, taking 2 courses online and attending a workshop at Carnegie Mellon University (Computer Science for High School Teachers). For my vacation, I will be spending two glorious weeks in North Carolina hiking and shopping and generally relaxing. All this and back to work on August 9th!
I was reading one of my favorite blogs today - Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch- and was intrigued by her concept of Bloom's Taxonomy. We all studied it and use it when preparing our lessons, but her thoughts were spurned by a few blogs she reads. She was all too unimpressed with a new concept of "flipping Bloom's Taxonomy" and I quite agree. She then gives this model below of her idea of Bloom's Taxonomy. Though it is a good concept, I think it needs a little tweaking visually. Somehow the gears need to connect more than to just the creative portion. Not sure how to make it work, but I get what she is trying to show with her image.
So what do teachers do over the summer? We do take some vacation time, but most of us spend many hours in professional development, tutoring or teaching summer school. I know I will be teaching a semester course packed into 3 weeks of June, taking 2 courses online and attending a workshop at Carnegie Mellon University (Computer Science for High School Teachers). For my vacation, I will be spending two glorious weeks in North Carolina hiking and shopping and generally relaxing. All this and back to work on August 9th!
I was reading one of my favorite blogs today - Kathy Schrock's Kaffeeklatsch- and was intrigued by her concept of Bloom's Taxonomy. We all studied it and use it when preparing our lessons, but her thoughts were spurned by a few blogs she reads. She was all too unimpressed with a new concept of "flipping Bloom's Taxonomy" and I quite agree. She then gives this model below of her idea of Bloom's Taxonomy. Though it is a good concept, I think it needs a little tweaking visually. Somehow the gears need to connect more than to just the creative portion. Not sure how to make it work, but I get what she is trying to show with her image.
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