ECS 401 Blogs

 My post this week looks different-- and a little lackluster and too short. Truthfully, I was unable to focus much in anything other than the upcoming three-week block. My symbol for this week was the only thing I was able to focus on apart from unit planning: the seven dialogue papers I scored. I thought long and hard after we'd finished the dialogue paper scoring on Wednesday.  Am I doing this right? Why did I think this would be easy for me? Did I miss something? Am I bad at assessing? Every subsequent paper I assessed made me doubt my ability to assess . I have been planning for this unit I will teach, and I'm hesitating at assessment. This rubric sucks. Will I even be able to assess the students with this ? Why don't I get it?  It is my hope that during these next three weeks, I will be nicer to myself. To push forward. To explore assessment in many ways. To seek help when I need it. To continue trying. I have not forgotten my goal this term. I will make it happen....

  "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." -Confucius What we learned this week:     It is odd not to write about learning circles. I still have the book borrowed from the U of R library and am hesitant to part ways with it. To be completely candid, I don't believe there is much to be read from my posts now without such a massive segment. You may just get a lot more rambling. I sometimes forget what we learned on Wednesday nights after procrastinating on these blog posts. My usual routine would be to check the agenda and choose what really stood out to me. This week's agenda is the shortest we've had so far if I'm not mistaken. I briefly glanced at it before class and told my dad that we might be let out earlier tonight. I was spectacularly wrong. I didn't mind, and it passed by pretty quickly.      We did a Poll Guru at the beginning, and it was great to touch base with everyone after the break. I remember one of the questions was ...