wiki post

I am overwhelmed by the tools available to educators these days. Here is my wiki link.https://catonzmom.wikispaces.com/home

https://catonzmom.wikispaces.com/home

Web 2.0

This has not been easy, but it has been worthwhile. I can't wait to use some of these new ideas next year when I get my brand new dream job!!!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-PRNOAIWzGPZEOLPc7bkiYl1TLMOg8MiN90FXHSIkdA/edit

Don't Cry Out Loud...Web 2.0 etc,

I want to share the most fantastic thing that happened today. I inspired someone. Me. Silly old me...
I have three days left with my fifth grade social studies students, and then my student teaching hours are complete and I will be on my own...subbing while looking for a job. My sweet sweet students...that my good friend has allowed me to share with her, well they are giving me drawings and little sweet notes. Today I got the best note ever. I had a little girl tell me that because of me when she grows up someday she wants to be a teacher. Really? I did that? Me? Wow....

I just don't know if I can do it. How can I leave? I really love these guys.

Now about Web 2.0...I just now figured out how to embed Glogster. I know that all of this will only make me a better teacher. So ECAP folks if you read this let me tell you...you rock. Thank you for all you do to help cray cray people like me be better and better.

Janet Taylor teacher extraordinaire signing out.

Delicious

Please help me I really have things to do...and I am completely trapped doing this for school...I'm not trying to be disrespectful...but enough already...here are my links to delicioushttp://delicious.com/catonzmom some of my favorite websites

Counting my Blessings

Dear lonely Reader...I am 42 years old. I think that my age is important in understanding why I am so whiney. I have four children. I think that is important to understand why I can be absolutely cranky. I have wanted to be a teacher for what seems like forever. I have tried and tried to find a real teaching job for two years now and had to settle for being an aide....not critical of that...I just need more to keep me happy.
So I am a paraprofessional in this Intermediate School in a very rich area working with SPED students in Content Mastery. The first thing I learn is  1) I am not smarter than a fifth grader !!!!

I decide pretty quickly that I want to teach for real...that I am so certain that I can do this thing and make a difference is on my heart. The second thing I learn 2) What I want and what God wants sometimes are two different things or in laymans terms..."you've got more to learn little girl..it's not going to be that easy, you are going to have to really really really want this"

I go through Alternative Education and decide I'm ready and apply apply apply...The third thing I learn 3) Just 'cause you fishing...don't mean they're biting!

I work another year in CM...I am devastated not to get a job in my district  that I interview for over the summer.

I begin another year (yes my third) fall of 2012 in CM. I learn 4) Humility, patience and silence are strengths that I didn't know I had.

I decide to student teach...I have to go to my inlaws for financial support ...I learn 5) People love me better than I ever dreamed.

I am allowed to student teach with my friend...
She is going through Chemoterapy and not only does she help me, but I am allowed to help her and take a burden from her in her classroom...The last thing so far that I have learned 6) God knows better...I am having the best year of my life...I am absolutely the luckiest unemployed teacher there ever was...ever.

Janet Taylor teacher extraordinaire...signing out.