Kim Lightle's Page

Hi Kim,thanks for the welcome note.There is a whole lot here to explore and learn from.I will be visiting this site often in coming days to get acquainted with the content,discussions and various forums.

Thank you for adding me to this wonderful network.

Thanks Kim,

It nice to have support from outside sources. This is going on my 3rd year in MS as all my previous experience was in ES. I am a certified Reading Specialist for grades K-12 but hadn't been able to use the certification in Social Studies until the last 2 years. It was a great experience as the other teacher offered no support so I winged it. My Standardized test scores for Social Studies were great and helped raise her scores.

I love both the subjects. The students here are well traveled and I learned a lot about the Ancient Civilizations through their personal travels. They were excellent primary sources.

Pat

PS I am from Cleveland, Ohio (^_*)

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