In an attempt to get a little better caught-up, in terms of bloggin' it, I decided that I should probably sit down and fire one off. The amazing thing is that I actually have something to write. I mean, I generally manage to come up with something, but often not till after a few false starts, so this is pretty cool. Here goes.

I just posted for Kate's class. We were supposed to come up with an answer - something relatively specific - for one or more of our quandaries. My answer was: think; know why you do what you do and make sure your students know you know why you do what you do. And although I fear my answer was not quite specific enough, that's not my biggest question about it. Instead, I'm hoping that this remedy is as powerful as I imagine it to be. Kinda like I wrote in my philosophy, I figure that if I am thinking through all the things I'm doing - what I'm teaching, how I manage the classroom, what kind of work I give my students, and so on - I have a pretty good shot at doing the right thing. And for the moment, that's really all I can come up with. All the tools and strategies and everything we're getting in class are great - I certainly would not have come up with most of them on my own, and I think they'll be hugely useful - but if I don't know to what end I use them, then they probably won't be much good. But I guess I'll see what happens, won't I... not much longer till I'll be in my own classroom. (Eeek!)