This year I am embarking on a new adventure in my classroom. I will be moving from 8th grade Reading & Honors to 7th grade Reading & Writing. I have decided to use this new chapter in my career to take on a new approach to teaching. In the past I have primarily had a teacher-centered classroom. Yes, I have attended the PD's and read the books/articles and attempted to make my classroom more student-centered, but at the end of the day I ran the show.
So this year I'm going to overhaul my teacher strategies and use a Guided Reading approach as well as interactive notebooks. I'm going to blog about my adventures in the hopes of measuring my own progress. So if you are reading this, I hope you find it helpful, and as they say "Forgive the Mess - We are Learning Here!"
