Blog Reflection

Through out the course of this semester I have tried to be diligent and write on my blog at least once a week but sometimes that didn’t happen. I really didn’t get much use out of this blog except for something I had to try to update once a week. I suppose if more people may have read it then I could have gotten more feedback but that didn’t happen. I felt that if I had a problem with my class I received better information by going to one of the administrators at my school or to a teacher who has been teaching for multiple years to seek advice rather than write about it. Maybe I didn’t completely understand what the blog was meant for but it was just hard for me to put a lot of time that I didn’t have into something that I didn’t get anything out of. Was it supposed to be something where I can keep a diary of my class and get out some of my emotions? If that’s the case well then I’m just not the type of person who likes to spill my guts to a bunch of other people.
However, I do believe a blog would be helpful it if was set up for my class or my athletic team. If I set up for students and parents and posted dates of assignments and tests along with reminders then that could be very useful. Also with athletics I could put up the weekly schedule along with other useful information. One example for that is when we went to Shiloh Christian High School in the playoffs this year. Shiloh Christian is in Springdale Arkansas which is a nice long trip from McGehee. A lot of parents kept calling up to the school wanting to know the schedule for the trip. If our head coach had a blog he could have posting that on his blog so the parents could just go on there and print it out. Also, another idea I had was for summer workouts where I could post everything about the workouts that we will be doing so that parents can see exactly what their kids will be doing. Kids also wouldn’t have an excuse to miss anything because I would have it posted on my blog were it was available for everyone to see. And then kids could trick their parents into thinking they didn’t have anything when they actually did.
I believe that a blog done in the right context would be very useful and helpful to any teacher. Even though I don’t think I got a lot out of this blog I do believe it gave me some ideas for a future blog. So maybe in the end the blog turned out to be useful.

Semester almost over

Well the semester is almost over both my school work and my teaching and I can honestly say im ready for a break from the school work. Im also ready to be done with this bloq I really don't see the good in it to be honest. A lot of the stuff we do in the MAT is good but this isn't one of them. Yesterday was a bad day for me in class. All the work that I had seemed to be doing went out the window yesterday it seems my kids forgot all my rules and how to act.

School Pics

This is the score after our game with Warren High School. It had been about ten years since we beat them.

My Classroom

My 1st and 2nd period class along with my bullentein board. My bullentein board almost survived the semester.

Football Camp

This is our summer football camp that we put on for the youths of McGehee. The guys in the white jerseys are our senior 3 year football players.

Killer Angles Book review

Opinion of book: 5 out of 5 stars.



The Killer Angels is a book about the Battle of Gettysburg during the civil war. It is a great story about what both sides went threw during the civil war. Are the confederate troops able to defeat the union troops and end the war once for all? This book can be used for both English and History and is a must read. It is very historical correct but also is very interesting to read. The characters are described very in depth and you are able to get a good grasp on what they are thinking. You almost get to feel what it was like to be a solieder in the Civil War.

Thanksgiving

Well it is almost Thanksgiving and boy am I glad for it because I am in need of a break. Football is now over after our beat down at the hands of Shiloh Christian last week. Being able to recruit sure is nice I can tell you that. However, now that football is over my work week has just been cut in half. No more working till 8 or 9 at night and then going home and doing school work now I just have to do school work. I also coach track but thats not untill after Christmas break and its not nearly the hours that football is.