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IPGs/Individualized Planning Guides. This is a new term for curriculum guide. I got suckered into being the lead person on writing curriculum for the new textbooks that we're not getting. (tibi grAtiAs agO, State Legislature.) I had to do edits on this stupid thing this a.m. I mean, are teachers really going to look at this and use it? It's been a royal pain in the clUnEs.
BUT... it's also important to do this right especially if we are forced to use these later on. So, word to the wise, future teachers who avoid committees at all costs.... this kind of grunt work must be done unless you want to suffer later on.
Well, that's what I keep telling myself.
Enough of this, though. I have a handful of teachers coming over this morning for a pronunciation workshop. What will I be doing? Good question. Probably a lot of what I intend to do at school. WHICH MEANS... I better print up some of my new pronunciation and syllabification sheets to see if they work. ha.
I was reading a passage outloud one day in front of one of these teachers at sight (don't recall what it was) and she was floored that I could read so smoothly like that. How do I do that? Well, I just like reading Latin outloud. I like reading anything outloud. I was amused that when I read silently and too quickly that I do miss some really good stuff. (It could just be reading late at night too... I noticed this when I was reading ahead in Harry Potter and then reading out loud to my eldest from where we left off.) All those JCL Dramatic Interps helped too. And as much as a nag about why we don't have macrons on everything so that we can sight read better and pick up new vocabulary in context with the right pronunciation, I found that I could sight read a passage of the Latin Harry Potter fine the other night at the Harry Potter party at the bookstore.
I'll report back on the results of the teacher workshop.
BUT... it's also important to do this right especially if we are forced to use these later on. So, word to the wise, future teachers who avoid committees at all costs.... this kind of grunt work must be done unless you want to suffer later on.
Well, that's what I keep telling myself.
Enough of this, though. I have a handful of teachers coming over this morning for a pronunciation workshop. What will I be doing? Good question. Probably a lot of what I intend to do at school. WHICH MEANS... I better print up some of my new pronunciation and syllabification sheets to see if they work. ha.
I was reading a passage outloud one day in front of one of these teachers at sight (don't recall what it was) and she was floored that I could read so smoothly like that. How do I do that? Well, I just like reading Latin outloud. I like reading anything outloud. I was amused that when I read silently and too quickly that I do miss some really good stuff. (It could just be reading late at night too... I noticed this when I was reading ahead in Harry Potter and then reading out loud to my eldest from where we left off.) All those JCL Dramatic Interps helped too. And as much as a nag about why we don't have macrons on everything so that we can sight read better and pick up new vocabulary in context with the right pronunciation, I found that I could sight read a passage of the Latin Harry Potter fine the other night at the Harry Potter party at the bookstore.
I'll report back on the results of the teacher workshop.
