Highlights of the day:
1) Found out the teachers at my school do Secret Santa ("amigos invisibles")!!! YAY!
2) I drew the name of the school handy man.
3) I bought him a toolbox and am stuffing it with Christmas ornaments and freshly baked cookies. I'm also burning him a CD, because he's the guy who drives me to university classes when I have them and his music taste is very similar to mine. I think he'll love some fresh American tunes! ;)
4) I also found out there is a Christmas dinner/party thing on Friday for the teachers. I'm totally going. I was told there are drinks and dancing. Oh my!! :) My favorite teacher to talk to offered to pick me up - now I just gotta figure out what to wear to my first *professional* holiday work party!!
5) My 4th grade teacher guy informed me the Very Chelsea Ideas of "bunny ears" when you're ready! and "popcorn reading" during oral activities have really caught on and made students ridiculously excited to work. Hell yes.
6) On the bus I was thinking of what to focus my thesis on. During dinner Abby was talking about juicing for a second. And then it came to me: How to juice the time economy of class time. I will elaborate more later; basically, how to teach as much as possible so students learn as much as possible in a minimum amount of class time. SOOOO much time is wasted during class (75%?) on pointless "activities" and transitions and dicipline, etc. There must be a way to fix this. I will research it. I think this would be a good thesis topic to put in my resume to get me hired across the globe. :)
XOXO
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