Well with the schedule I have this year, something had to give.... in this case keeping a blog had to go.... I do have some time now - so here I go!!!
Had a program review by my state advisor. FCS is a vocational program, so added funding means added accountability. She had some great suggestions to make my program work better, but it means extra work for me. This is what we decided:
1. Get rid of the entrepreneurship class - each semester I only have 3-10 students enrolled, therefore having to keep combining the class with another- recipe for YIKES.
2. Start a Food Productions and Management class- this is an advanced class for students who have taken nutrition and foods, and want to take an advanced class
3. Start an educational assistant program - I actually suggested this, we all ready have a administrator who places, and monitors the students going into the elementary classrooms- I thought I could be in charge of an on line class portion
so the things I have to do besides lesson plans for these classes:
- write 10n forms for each program
-acquire tech prep agreements for each program
-renew my servesafe certificate
-renew my vigor for fccla ---- that will be another entry :)
One thing that has been bothering me just a little is last year I agreed to allow central district health to help me do the reduce the risk program in our high school. I did it in earnest last year, and agreed CONDITIONALLY to participate in a limited basis this year. Specifically I was not going to subject my students to the million page survey (or take extra class time) and I wasn't going to do all of the lessons= I do not have enough time. After all it isn't my grant..... The contact I work with in my town is incredible to work with, but her boss wants to meet with me. So it will be interesting what she says. Really, it won't change anything, short of if she has some funding to by things to bribe students to do those surveys outside of class time.....
This has been an incredible year so far, REALLY BUSY. Also it is natural to have cycles of professional confidence. However this year it seems like in the teaching arena my confidence levels have been volatile. One week up, one week down, it sometimes varies from day to day! I feel pretty good this week LOL. I am excited that parent teacher conferences are in our rooms this year = meaning I will get lots of grading, planning and other work done. I don't usually get too many parents- hey I am only "lllll" FAMILY and CONSUMER SCIENCES LOL
Fluffy bunnies and lofty clouds!
Juniper
