I know it may seem crazy to be writing a post on a TUESDAY (I am a teacher after all, I should probably already be in bed), but I wanted to write about something NEW that I am going to be trying in my classroom. My new students have an age old problem of "forgetting" that we have homework, or a quiz, and so my new solution is something that I actually stole from a fellow math teacher who works across the hall.
Have you heard of "Remind"? Well I hadn't either until this school year, and I hope that it is as successful as I imagine. Simply put, Remind is a way for me to text all of my students without having their phone numbers, or them having mine (trust me I may be crazy to teach math to ninth graders, but I'm not that crazy). I hope to use this in combination with my Edmodo class websites to eradicate late work and missing assignments. HAHAHA!
But in all seriousness, I hope that it does help my students remember to do their homework (thus improving their grades, thus making my life easier). At the end of the day, I am in this for them, and so if this helps, then I will shout it from the rooftops (they are, after all the highest point in Delaware).
I will report back my findings, and hopefully they will all be positive. For now I am off to complete another school related task: taming the tornado that is my classroom. I have tried a few organizational tricks that I will post about later to make things flow better, but it always seems like I have to spend precious minutes at the end of every day reorganizing my life. Today my task is to organize my teacher desk!
Wish me luck!
~C
