Blog #7 Hit Me LIke a Hurricane

 One Surprising Week! Hit Me Like a HURRICANE!!

Rating (3 out of 5)

Well, this week has been quite a shocker. Overall I started off the week feeling very relieved and feeling like I could breahe again and that it would be smooth sailing since edTPA was hopefully out of the way, after a very complicated submission. I never would have thought a hurricane would get in my way of submitting, but here we are. Well after submitting, I planned and re-planned, and re-planned as the days of school kept getting cancelled. I kept having to adjust and re-plan because my Friday's have a slightly different schedule, so how the plans fall affected how the activities were planned. We were also supposed to have check ins this week, so those were re-scheduled, so I was having to re-plan for the subjects that I would be teaching during the times that the Check ins were scheduled. Sadly, the weird schedule I was going into and the conssitent change in what the week I was going into would look like, does not give me a great set up for next week, so I am still in a re-planning process because the plans for the week that school was called off would not be suitable for a full normal week without check ins. I am also trying to review and assess to transition units in both reading and math, and I did not want to teach the final new things and then test them at the end of a short week when we did not have time to get into it and help the students to grasp it, so this also affected my planning. This time should have been a great window for getting ahead, but that was not the case for me. I was however able to design a strong attenedence log to keep for my records because my other one was too complex, so I did take time to do that. Another accomplishment for me would be handling a parent concern. My CE and I have been discussing alot this week on what the best course of action would be and really trying to meet this parent in the middle to find a plan of action for this student. Though it is not a fun situation to be in, it was a great situation to witness and a learning experience down the road. This was definitely a week for the books, and I also thought these planning days were a wake up call for all the things that go into it all when I really got a birds eye view of the week when I kept having to adjust for the whole week due to consistent slight changes in the week until the entire week is uprooted and shifted. I loved having this individual time with my CE though to discuss course of action during a surprsing disaster as this.