As I was driving to school one morning last fall I had to stop and photograph the moon with the early morning fog. I remembered this sight as I feel I am in a fog with the end of this capstone project. Although the fog seemed to overwhelm me this past weekend, there is the glimmer of clearing in a light blue sky.
I will try to remember this as I gather all of the tools that I am using as intervention in the teaching of Family & Consumer Science from the perspective of STEAM.
Last week saw me try to organize the variety of projects that my students have experienced this school year. The biggest frustration came as I committed such a rookie mistake as not SAVING the document after spending hours organizing as well as attaching documents incorrectly. I guess I really took too much down time during the break! The silver lining is that after re-writing, I can claim a better understanding of what I am really accomplishing in my classroom. The next goal is to finish creating the Google Site for a depository of the project assignments, tutorials, videos and informational text that can easily be accessed by my students.
I must say I was slightly depressed after the end of this past marking period. It seemed so disjointed with the holidays and snow disturbances, that I am not sure if the students truly gained as much as they could. My goal is with my new group of students to focus on the positives, searching for the one or two students who truly find the connections of all things STEAM into the world of Family & Consumer Science.
No comments:
Post a Comment