May is generally the time teachers and education bloggers are thinking about next year’s personal and professional goals. If I actually do a quarter of these, I will have had a very successful year.
In no specific order:
- Finally decide on whether to develop a class Twitter account or use Edmodo. Any advice here?
- Plan the entire year with Google Calendar.
- Blog weekly, at least.
- Spend more time here
- Bend the ear of my school’s literacy coach.
- Skype an Author!
- Practice kindness, model mindfulness.
- Start writing a picture book with my teaching teammate.
- Volunteer at a Hong Kong Soup Kitchen.
- Actively promote Kiva
- Spend more time here
- Use this site to develop more striking anchor charts.
- Peer Mentor for my school’s professional evaluation system.
- Memorize these.
- Work on my public speaking.
- Write daily for 10 minutes in front of my students using this book.
- Spend more time with my Mom and Dad.
- Actively promote Challenge Based Learning.
- Make needed adjustments to our World Religions unit.
- Develop more student choice in my writing workshop conversations.
- Poetry every week with this lady’s help.
- Bend the ear of our school’s new tech administrator.
- Take one webcast professional development seminar with Heinemann.
- Time bound “Words their Way” assessment strategies. Ideas?
- Inquire about student blogs. Again, any help here?
- 1000 followers on my Twitter account. @LarryHermanHK
- Start a trio band fashioned after these guys.
- Save as much money as humanly possible.
- Plan our next move.
- Help my friend drum up some business on WiseKangaroo.com
- Visit Tasmania.
- Learn how to create an Iphone app.
- Take a Google for Educators professional development course.
- Visit the Philippines.
- Read Mentor Matters cover to cover.
- Start a parent teacher book club using these books.
- Read more books. I do this one every year!
- Conduct a technology seminar for elementary teachers at EARCOS or 21CLHK
- Get 5,000 hits on my blog.
- Meet Maya Angelou.
It will be a great year!
