Today I enter my third decade in the teaching profession.
The first day of school is always an exciting one for the students, parents, and yes, for the teachers too. Our school has seven days of pre-planning before the students arrive. We have various tasks to do, including updating our curriculum maps, getting the computers ready, writing lesson plans and lots of meetings. Too many meetings!
Today, I’m ready to teach!
There have been many changes at our school. We had a 750 seat theatre built last year that has now opened up. There is also a new black box theatre for students and a new fitness center with state of the art equipment. My computer room was also carpeted over the summer and the sound of computers humming is very quiet.
The students seem eager to be back at school hooking up with old friends and anxious to make new friends as well.
This semester, I teach three sections of Web Design, one section of Honors Programming I, and one section of AP Computer Science. I’m using Moodle again this year and I am trying to get new teachers to use it as well. It is going to be very convenient to use because I built the course syllabus with links and files last year and now I just use it as needed.
This year marks the first year that my oldest daughter will be teaching kindergarten classes in Alexandria, VA. She went back to school recently at George Macon University to study elementary teaching because she got the teaching bug. She’ll make a good teacher. I like to think that it runs in the family.
Brian Scarbeau
CSTA Board of Directors