I will be starting my second year in a full time teaching position and I am just as nervous as I was my first year. I could re-write and use the same lesson plans I used last year but how does that benefit my students? Since I am a technology teacher and teach school wide once the students have seen it, well they have seen it. Of course we will be taking on some major review of concepts especially for the littles but with the quickly changing field of technology the older students deserve an introduction to some of the elements they will be seeing in life. Thus I am nervous about the new lesson plans I am working on and whether or not the students can meet the challenges. They surprised me a little last year when they met each challenge I set for them, especially when I knew some of the concepts I was teaching they had never been introduced too and other concepts they were familiar with seemed yet so foreign. The positive side, I taught them last year so I know what they learned, except of course for those transfer students and new kindergartners.
   With the new year I am also going to try and get some of the teachers into the new "extra" lab and train them on some of the great programs they can use with their students.  There are so many neat websites and programs out there that can help students be creative, and learn classroom content. I am hoping that I will not see this wonderful lab sit mostly empty again, for another year. We will see.
   I am going to try and be better about sharing my ideas a long with classroom success and yes failures, with you, fellow teachers. Who knows, maybe we can teach each other something. Happy new school year!