Summary of the Semester

At the beginning of the semester, I was a little scared but excited.  I surprised myself being able to handle teaching, coaching and going back to school.  My secret was working on my assignments while waiting for the parents to pick up the students and staying up late.  The beginning of my journey opened my eyes to the negatives and positives of my county.  There is potential to grow and take the plan the county has and make the goals happen.  The negatives are the direction the county wants to head toward and the leadership at my school.  Support is minimum when the concentration is on small groups, rigor, and hands-on activities.  Technology is on the back burner for the moment until the direction changes.  I do feel the need to grow as a technology driven educator to improve how the students learn.  I do plan to add in technology into my lesson plans and show the administration that I'm taking what I have learned and continued to learned seriously.  I want to show that creating an engage learning assignment into a project the students would remember and have them to grow as learners.  Since I am with ESOL students, I want them to explore the possibilities and relate to the content the teacher is trying to teach them as well as myself. 

I have noticed a change in myself.  I have less tolerance of lack of direction, lack of organization, and lack of strong leadership.  I know my school needs a clear direction, and organizing the importance of the direction we need to succeed as a school.   As for lack of leadership, I can only display my leadership as an upcoming leader with technology lessons.  I am ready to expand our technology tools and show a new way for engage learning.