Trying to think...

I've always been the poster-child for abstract random. I think in terms of the big picture and the end result. I struggle to find the details or pin them down along the way. As an individual, this works well for me. I can imagine where I need to go, and the ideas I have along the way are about content, not the process of things.

I LOVE ideas. I enjoy thinking about things and collecting new information. I love conversations that spark my little brain and I love reading things that force me to consider ideas I hadn't entertained before.

As a teacher, I struggle with this side of me because my students need that structure, that step-by-step information that I will often intuitively just do without the steps spelled out. In my world, step-by-step is for when you're building something like a bookshelf.

I'm hoping the collaboration here, with Clesta, will help me re-train my brain a bit. I'm also hoping the collaboration between our other colleagues involved with help me consider new and different things and will lead me to being a better teacher. [that's one of the main reasons I signed up -- I'm always looking to improve my "game" in the classroom, and I figure I can learn a lot from teachers who've been doing this longer]

[and now, as you can see...I got off on another one of my tangents...so, anyway...]

Right now, I'm trying my hand at creating the mission statement for our project. I've got all these ideas in their beginning stages of what it should be, what our mission is, what we're specifically trying to do -- but the key is to boil it down into a sentence (or two).

That's hard. But...here I go...