New Ideas

I haven't been a classroom for a year now, this will be my second year out. I went back to school to start working on my Doctorate in Education. I am finishing up my Specialization in Curriculum Instruction and Design next Spring! (Not counting down at all.) I have a TpT store that I have been posting lesson plans on since March of this year. It's a little slow in the store, but I am confident that once more people see what I have created they will spread the word. I try to work on things weekly. I have tons of lessons already created, so its just a matter of getting them set to go in the store. I also have a huge list of new ideas for lessons I want to create. As a teacher I am constantly thinking of ideas to better engage my students in activities that will allow them to grasp the main concept. I jot down ideas all the time, when they pop in my head. My list is growing, but that is good. That means I have not lost my desire to teach. Even though when I am finished with my Doctorate, I would love to teach at a university, I am not opposed to going back to teaching high school. (Don't know if I will have priced myself out of that market with a doctorate just yet.)

When you have an idea do you create the lesson/activity right away, or do you think about it a little bit to work out the problems? I have found that if I just create something right away, the kinks work themselves out while I am doing the lesson. Though my type A personality cringes at this method, it is slowly becoming more refined. I take a few days now to work out the logistics of the lesson or activity and then I create it. I have post-its all over the place! 

This blog will basically be me thinking things through and posting new ideas I have for lessons/activities for high school history classes. Many of the lessons I have in my TpT shop already can be modified for junior high. 

Hope you come back for more and visit my shop too.