We did not get enough participants in our online program to run it for a second year, despite how successful it was in the first year. There are plenty of reasons for that, which I might go into in later blog posts.
What's next?
I'll be heading back into a more traditional classroom after spending a year teaching online. In may ways it's like a sabbatical. I've been invigorated and refreshed by many new ideas that I want to bring to my classroom.
One particularly exciting part is that I had to pack up all my old stuff a year ago and clear out my room. Now I'm moving into a new room for the first time in 10 years. With my experiences of the last year I will walk into my room and re-think all the things that I did for so many years.
For example:
- Why do I need a teacher desk?
- Why do I need a filing cabinet?
- Why do I always have the students facing the same way, every day, all year?
- Why put the homework on the board when I can put it in a shared calendar online? (Shared with parents too!)
- Why do anything on paper? (Actually there are good reasons to do things on paper at certain times, but it is important to ask if it's the appropriate medium.)
- Why am I the one deciding what all the projects and assignments should be? How much can the students do?
- And so many more.....
But I'm afraid.............
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