Tuesday Webinar



Lately, I feel like my practicum course is whizzing by too quickly.  I think its Spring giving me the fever!  I am trying to work on portfolio daily.  Last week I focused on reflections for each standard.  Today I am going back to my reflections and adding links that are appropriate for each standard.  My site visit is next week, so I am a little nervous about that.  I have already started the lesson plan, I just have a few tweaks in the written aspect of the lesson plan.  I hope everyone enjoys the lesson the students and the professor.  As many times as I have been observed I shouldn't feel nervous!  O well that's human nature.  Today was a scheduled Webinar for all first grade teachers so I joined in.  The webinar related to first grade mathematics and how we should compile our units to the common core.  It discussed moving from the Georgia Professional Standards to the Common Core, and gave some great information to make the transition easy.  The website address is http://www.gpb.org/education/common-core The site has a calendar that lists all the upcoming webinars. The webinars on the site are awesome. The webinar we watched was 2 hours long.   You can view them live or you can view the past webinars.  The site made it very simple.  Of course you cant participate in the live chats if you view past webinars, but you get the information all the same.  I am glad that the