4 Months later

I started this blog 4 months ago with the intention of blogging on a regular basis... and then school started.  Wham! All teachers know the feeling of running on a treadmill while juggling eight or nine balls hoping you can just make it to the end of the semester without dropping any of them or falling flat on your face.  But I decided that I can't wait until I have time to blog, I need to make time to blog.  Why?  Because things happen too quickly, and I need to reflect. Without reflection we cannot improve, and I desperately want to continue to improve my teaching and more importantly my students learning.

Perfectionism in Teaching

It is 11pm on a Saturday night and I am furiously trying to make sure that I have the worlds greatest lesson plans for Monday morning. Tomorrow I have a wedding to go to (yes a wedding on a Sunday, on the day before the first student day of school!). I will get nothing done tomorrow, so I need to be ready to go today. So what have I accomplished... nada. I am still perfecting my website, syllabuses, lessons, etc. I don't think they are much better then they were 4 hours ago when my brain was still functional. In proof that it was not functional I accidentally turned on the transliteration feature in blogger (आईटी'स प्रेत्टी कूल, बुत नोट वैरी गुड इफ यू दोन'टी स्पेअक हिंदी), and it took me 5 minutes to figure out how to turn it off. I am not ready for Monday, but I must recognize that I will never be ready enough.

So tonight I sleep, tomorrow I celebrate, and Monday.... I teach!

My Blog

So I am finally blogging. You would think this would be simple, but alas it took me almost a year to get this first post up. First I had to decide what blogging platform I wanted to use, then a name, and then it took me eons to pick a theme! Seriously, I am not sure I could tell you what the themes look like on of any of the blogs that I love to read, but for some reason it really mattered to me. The worst part was writing this first post. I have written and deleted a lot of text on my way to this first post which says not much of anything. I suppose in the end it was easiest to write first about nothing and then progress to the more serious stuff.
So here it is, my first blog post. I hope it will be the first of many.