Sometimes, when you are a teacher, you have really cool ideas. With those ideas, generally one of the following things happens: 1.) you plan, you account for possible reactions/behavior from your students, and the lessons goes without a hitch (these are rare, but beautiful moments). 2.) More likely you plan, you account for possible reactions/behavior from your students, and something goes wrong, if not terribly wrong (the internet stops working, the groups you made are much more argumentative than you planned for, the students are unable to come to the conclusion you had hoped to lead them to, etc.) or 3.) you plan this really cool project and it ends up being much, much more time consuming than you anticipated and now you feel the stress of time. You don't want your students to hurry and finish in a sloppy fashion, and yet, how much more time can you afford to give up?
Well, I'm currently dealing with the third scenario. At the beginning of the school year a publishing company contacted teachers all over the country, offering them a free publication of a book their classes could write. Going with the confidence of a second year teacher, I jumped at the opportunity. I have to say, my class has worked really hard on this book and I've been really impressed, but we have a bit of a ways to go. And our final draft for submission is due this Friday. It's going to be a week of authors' and illustrators' workshops. Wish us your best! :)
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