LEARN and BPH part 2

I know that in the last class period I definitely learned in a much more beneficial by dividing up the parts of the LEARN plan and then teaching each other about it. This really helped us develop standard 4g: Teachers communicate effectively which we had to do in order to teach each other. Also when meeting with my group this week, we were able to collaborate and work together to try to really hash this thing out and really get it figured out. I also found that this BPH also works well with standard 1c: Teachers leading the profession. I think that we could all use a breather soon though, heck I found out this week that my teacher could be testin till as late as April 4th so I still haven't had a chance to get into the classroom yet. Talk about no pressure sheesh.

BPH, NCTCS, and oh yeah did I mention more BPH?

So it would seem that we are all still in one piece which is great but let's be honest, did anyone else smell their brain smoking after taking our first crack at this Best Practices Handbook? I definitely see how the NCTCS standards are going to tie into the handbook though and I think that in the end this handbook is going to be a great tool and resource for us, especially as new teachers. The fact that it's based on best practices alone is going to help us more from a pedagogical aspect rather than just writing research papers and lesson plans until we can't see straight lol. Although I would like to say that I am most comfortable with relating to Standard 3, which is knowing the content you teach, the truth of the matter is that, while I am comfortable with teaching my students actual English, I still have more work to do as far as getting comfortable with content of other areas, particularly math and science because not only do we teach content of multiple subjects in ESL, we also teach from K-12 which is a heck of a lot of content, and a heck of a lot of pressure. In the end though this is exactly why I think that this Best Practices Handbook is going to be such a beneficial and useful tool and resource.