New Years for Teachers

Getting ready for the new school year is under way. I spend the day in technology training learning new things to teach my fellow teachers. By night, I plan. I rearrange my room, write lesson plans, review last years successes and failures. I do all this in my head. Tomorrow night I will start over. This is an exciting time of year. New years eve for a teacher. This is when we start over, make resolutions, and plans. I will do this better this year or I will avoid that.
Every year I do a week long unit about the Multiple Intelligences. It is based around a different theme each year. I am enjoying planning.

It is also a new year for my second job as building Technology Mentor. The mentor team is training this week. We have been learning about Open Office. A free open source software that can be downloaded at http://www.openoffice.org/ I am asking myself, "why have I waited so long to try this. It is easy to use and better yet FREE. The Writer is similar to Word. It even makes some tasks much easier and more intuitive. It is worth checking out.

To all you teachers out there. Happy New Years!! Enjoy this time of new beginnings. May we all learn from our mistakes and build on our strengths as we venture on a new adventure with a new group of fresh faces.