Kim Lightle's Page

Thanks Kim, looks like a great page. I plan on familiarizing myself with all the areas you mentioned between this week and next.

I relocated from Panama to Chile in January and I'm still getting used to the ways things are done here at Craighouse School.  It's an IB school, therefore my plannign has to be immaculate.  I'm glad I found MSP2. Once I'm more settled in, I can spend more time digging into this new oasis.

Thanks again for your warm welcome

 I am feeling slightly overwhelmed with this new assignment of spanish 1 and teaching STEM . I believe we do not have any budget but I am going to the Mining Assoc. workshop for teachers this summer. It looks so fun.  I hope to get some great ideas.

Hello Kim Lightle,

Thank you for your warm welcome.THis is a great site! What interets me most is the blogs and forum! It's a nice site for STEM!

Hello Kim,

Thank you so much for making me part of the team. This is my first year teaching and needless to say...I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I have been a Professional Engineer for the past 14 years and decided to "make a difference" and close the achievement gap by joining the Nashville Teaching Fellows organization over this past summer. Needless to say the "very brief" bootcamp that they put you through is not enough to prepare you for the "real classroom"!! At this point I'm just trying to reach out for as much help as I can get. Currently my goal is to try and make my classroom more fun, interesting and exciting; I feel like I just lecture at this point and I am not getting through. If you have any ideas/suggestions I am more than open. I keep hearing about differentiating instruction,creating centers, using manipulatives etc....but all of this is foreign to me and I am not getting the support to figure this out...so I'm DESPERATELY doing research online...any help/ideas/suggestions would be GRRRREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

Sincerely,

A Echols

Since this will be the first time for us can you make any suggestions?

Hi Kim

Thank you for the warm welcome.  We are all excited about starting a project based STEM  program.  I had the first class yesterday and the students were quite interested.  We went over microprocessor basics and the weeks to com we shall learn up to the point where we can program and interface a microcontroller.  Hope to hear from you again soon

Michael

Hi Kim,

Thank you for your warm welcome.  I am looking forward to using the resources of the Middle School Portal.  I will be working as a coach to a principal of a middle school, and since my background is primarily high school, I want to make sure I have as many sources of good ideas as possible for this work.  The school where I will be coaching is very specailized in that it uses a co-teaching model in all classrooms.  The school's focus is inclusion of all learners.  I will be looking for ideas that support differentiated instruction so that students on Individualized Education Plans get equal access to the math and science curricula.  I look forward to visiting this site often.

Sincerely,

Charlie

Same here, Kim! And thanks to you and Jessica for your fabulously helpful evaluation of science resources in relation to the Common Core last week. I'm looking forward to learning from you all.

Thanks,
Dov