I haven't posted in a long time! I've been so so SO busy that I just haven't had a moment! I'm enjoying a four-day weekend, and thought I would update everyone. I'm about to start my fourth week of school, and so far I LOVE teaching! It has been a crazy amount of work so far, but it's definitely worth it! The picture above is of the school, Frontier Academy (You can click it to see a bigger version).

I'm teaching four classes - 2 sections of Multimedia (mostly computer graphics and animation), Critical Skills (A basic applications class for freshmen), and Programming. The students have been really great. All my classes have 28 students except programming which only has 8. I teach in the afternoons, so in the morning I have a planning period and a time for helping teachers with technology and generally fixing all the things that go wrong with computers.

I just gave the first test in Programming and was pleased to see that overall my students did pretty well. They seem to be struggling a bit with syntax (big surprise.) but are understanding the concepts. I'm teaching them Java because I would like to offer AP Computer Science next year (which is in Java).

I'm pretty exhausted from everything, but I really enjoy it. Planning for all the courses is really time consuming, especially as my first year teaching them all. I feel confident that things will slow down a bit in the future.