A New Approach

I am attempting to revamp my curriculum and approach to teaching. Although the term itself has lead to a bit of a backlash (as always happens when a new strategy becomes flavor of the month), I think there is much value in some variation on the flipped classroom model. At a minimum, I know my current strategies have stagnated and I am finding it ever more difficult to slog through the content in class with a distracted group of thirty or more 14-15-year-olds, leaving less and less time to do interesting things like labs and projects field trips and such.

I also find that the interface for the school's website that allows teachers to post assignments, events, and links is just too cumbersome for the way I work either way - as it is, attempts to update information on a daily basis requires too many steps and limitations, which a blog format will simplify for me. Time will tell if I run into problems on blogger that I didn't encounter on edline.

I will have one blog for AP Biology and a separate blog for Regents Living Environment. For the rest, the results will speak for themselves once I start posting.