“Secret Posts”
It’s true that I have over 200 blog post drafts that may never see the light of day. Some of them, well, they certainly reflect how far I’ve come. Some are actually pretty good ideas, though I haven’t gotten around to developing them.
So I went back in time and collected the titles from 2011-2014 (which still leaves about 100 recent posts that I may or may not resurrect).
Some of them are kind of bitter. Some of them hurt (WHY do I collect students’ bad reviews about me?) Some were from grad school reading, some from lessons that went well, some from lessons that never went at all. There was even a four-year-old draft with 10 potential post topics…of which I’d only actually posted one.
I wanted to share these post titles for a few reasons:
- Just to share with you, my online amigos, kind of how my brain works.
- Maybe someone will see something they’ve been looking for or that just piques their curiosity and give me the push I need to finish fleshing an idea out.
- I mostly hope it’ll help someone who’s struggling see that someone who may SEEM like they know what they’re doing A) didn’t always and B) probably just SEEMS that way.
I would love to hear your reactions to the “secret post” titles, if there are any you would like to hear more about (if I can remember what I was thinking at all), or maybe if any give you hope or just give you a giggle.
2011
| Gloggitude | 1/27/2011 |
| Ah, to be simple-minded | 2/6/2011 |
| The difference | 2/13/2011 |
| #Langchat to try: | 2/17/2011 |
| Wikilicious | 3/1/2011 |
| Lectures | 3/3/2011 |
| Fakers | 3/9/2011 |
| 7 hours at school on a Sunday | 3/11/2011 |
| Things I could not have done without my colleagues | 3/15/2011 |
| Skype about getting serious | 3/29/2011 |
| Ultimate Goals | 5/17/2011 |
| My greatest sins as a Spanish teacher | 5/20/2011 |
| White privilege and teacher education. | 6/2/2011 |
| I am my students | 7/28/2011 |
| What I Know About Race | 8/10/2011 |
| More than I can chew | 9/20/2011 |
| Reflexive Reflections: A complete P.A.C.E. experience | 10/24/2011 |
| Let me be clear | 11/17/2011 |
| National Boards is a humiliating process for language teachers | 11/20/2011 |
| Weather tweets | 12/11/2011 |
2012
| Swim team and small ponds | 2/15/2012 |
| Classroom Skype: Small Group Do’s & Don’ts | 5/17/2012 |
| For next year | 6/13/2012 |
| Buck Institute: Day 1 | 6/25/2012 |
| To bring to the table | 6/25/2012 |
| Buck Institute: Day 2 | 6/28/2012 |
| Buck Institute: Day 3 | 7/2/2012 |
| IMAGINE | 7/6/2012 |
| More PBL for Spanish ideas | 7/16/2012 |
| Suis-je bothered? | 8/12/2012 |
| Day 1 Checklist | 8/20/2012 |
| My first Entry Events | 8/24/2012 |
| Día del Niño | 9/1/2012 |
| Teaching philosophy | 9/5/2012 |
| Instrucciones Importantes | 10/2/2012 |
| Co-Construction Reconstruction | 10/10/2012 |
| FLANC takeaway | 10/15/2012 |
| Voxopop | 10/19/2012 |
| Parent Conferences | 10/19/2012 |
| Experiencia Afrolatina, Part 2: Colombia | 11/15/2012 |
2013
| Student blogs in Spanish: what, why, and how | 1/2/2013 |
| Ultimate Spanish Playlist project | 1/7/2013 |
| Hit the ground…stretching | 1/7/2013 |
| SMART rubric | 2/5/2013 |
| Champion | 3/2/2013 |
| Art Club every day | 4/19/2013 |
| Procedures | 4/30/2013 |
| Exploring new countries, Abuela | 5/14/2013 |
| Interpersonal Presentations: Interacting while peers present | 5/23/2013 |
| Create your own version of 100 Mexicanos Dijeron for SMARTboard! | 5/31/2013 |
| Animales | 6/4/2013 |
| DIY Linguafolio e-portfolio on Google Sites & Blogger | 6/12/2013 |
| Why Don’t Students Like School? | 7/4/2013 |
| Obstacles to PBL in the World Language Classroom | 7/14/2013 |
| Feedback for Improvement: Two Personal Examples | 7/26/2013 |
| Vision: Spanish is where we do things that matter | 7/26/2013 |
| General Literacy Skills and L2 | 8/8/2013 |
| Elements of Dia del Nino project | 8/22/2013 |
| PBL Troubleshooting: Narrowing the Choices | 8/28/2013 |
| RAFT for Novice Spanish | 9/16/2013 |
| Divide and Conquer: Trust Your Students | 9/26/2013 |
| Top 3 mistakes in “Top 3 mistakes teachers of novices make” | 10/17/2013 |
| Cooking with Kiddies: Vocabulary We Needed | 11/14/2013 |
| #ACTFL13 Storify Summaries: Saturday | 12/7/2013 |
| Creative Writing reflection | 12/16/2013 |
| Procedures to Keep Genius Hour in the TL | 12/16/2013 |
| Vocabulary for Any Demonstration | 12/17/2013 |
| Suggestions | 12/19/2013 |
| Personal Vocabulary | 12/21/2013 |
| Group Input | 12/24/2013 |
2014
| Is a PIRATE’s Life for me? | 1/1/2014 |
| PBL and the Writing Process | 1/1/2014 |
| Genius Hour Agenda | 1/9/2014 |
| Study visit at Caldwell Early College High School | 1/28/2014 |
| #LangChat Methodology Extravaganza: PBL | 1/30/2014 |
| Lesson Design | 2/1/2014 |
| Creative Writing, Service Learning | 2/11/2014 |
| Celebrity Look-Alike | 2/20/2014 |
| Creative Writing Cures | 2/22/2014 |
| Genius Hour Agenda 5: Contacts | 3/6/2014 |
| Dual Language School in Catawba County | 3/11/2014 |
| Team Compound vs Team Complex | 3/20/2014 |
| Writers Workshop | 3/21/2014 |
| Learning Is Learning | 3/30/2014 |
| Circumlocution | 4/6/2014 |
| Langchat App | 4/21/2014 |
| Genre Story Starters | 4/23/2014 |
| School Supply Budget | 4/30/2014 |
| Keep and Kick | 5/16/2014 |
| Más americano | 5/16/2014 |
| Self-Publishing Ebooks for Students | 5/16/2014 |
| Keep and Kick | 5/16/2014 |
| Spanish Accomplishments | 5/19/2014 |
| VIF Professional developmen | 5/22/2014 |
| Letter to my senator | 6/1/2014 |
| Unsung Essential Standards, Part 1: Cognates and Loan Words | 6/11/2014 |
| ASW narratives Spanish III WL.IL.CLL.3.4 | 6/16/2014 |
| Genius Hour Problems | 7/13/2014 |
| Stormboard Templates in the World Language Classroom | 7/24/2014 |
| 8 Years a Failure | 7/28/2014 |
| Genius Hour for All | 8/5/2014 |
| Communication-Based Interactive Language Notebook | 8/7/2014 |
| #TLC14 Genius Hour for All | 8/8/2014 |
| Stormboard seemed like the perfect tool | 8/22/2014 |
| Atención | 8/26/2014 |
| Concept Blogs for Film & Literature | 8/26/2014 |
| Technology and the TL | 9/10/2014 |
| Reader’s Theatre Director’s Notes | 9/10/2014 |
| #ReflectiveTeacher Blogging Challenge Day 19: Student reflection | 9/16/2014 |
| The Last Word: Collaborative Communication Strategy | 9/17/2014 |
| Storyasking for Project-Based Learning | 9/21/2014 |
| Going Green Unit: Spanish I/II | 9/21/2014 |
| Plan Verde: PBL Entry Event + TPRS/TCI | 9/29/2014 |
| #ReflectiveTeacher Blogging Challenge Day 26: Go-to sites | 10/11/2014 |
| #ReflectiveTeacher Blogging Challenge Day 25: Collaboration ideal | 10/11/2014 |
| #ReflectiveTeacher Blogging Challenge Day 29 & 30: I’m still changing | 10/11/2014 |
| #ReflectiveTeacher Blogging Challenge Day 28: Curriculum & Technology | 10/11/2014 |
| #ReflectiveTeacher Blogging Challenge Day 27: Weekends & holidays | 10/11/2014 |
| Video Back Channels | 10/14/2014 |
| Storyasking: “Mucha basura” Week 3 | 10/14/2014 |
| #ReflectiveTeacher Blogging Challenge Day 24 & 23: PBL is life | 10/20/2014 |
| Keeping PBL Groups in the Target Language | 10/22/2014 |
| Verbs in a PBL Spanish Class | 10/30/2014 |
| ¡Llame ya! An Inventive Interdisciplinary Project | 11/3/2014 |
| I AM the Parent | 11/12/2014 |
| Independent Brain Breaks | 11/17/2014 |
| Voice Commenting on Google Docs | 11/17/2014 |
| Personalized Homework Goals | 11/18/2014 |
| Reframing Frustration | 11/18/2014 |
| Adapting to ACTFL I-cans | 11/27/2014 |
| App Smash | 12/4/2014 |
| WeSpeke | 12/29/2014 |
10 Comments
Kelly Scheetz · April 30, 2016 at 3:38 am
Curious about the National Board humiliation and what was the motivation/direction for that one!
Kelly Scheetz · April 29, 2016 at 11:38 pm
Curious about the National Board humiliation and what was the motivation/direction for that one!
Laura Sexton · April 30, 2016 at 12:28 pm
True story, this WAS a published post, AND my most popular post! Mostly venting after I got rejected a SECOND time. I made a more useful post later.
Laura Sexton · April 30, 2016 at 8:28 am
True story, this WAS a published post, AND my most popular post! Mostly venting after I got rejected a SECOND time. I made a more useful post later.
Sra Cottrell · April 30, 2016 at 4:06 pm
Um… I gotta hear about “Top 3 mistakes in “Top 3 mistakes teachers of novices make””…. #puttingonmythickskin 😉
Sra Cottrell · April 30, 2016 at 12:06 pm
Um… I gotta hear about "Top 3 mistakes in "Top 3 mistakes teachers of novices make""…. #puttingonmythickskin 😉
Sra. Sexton · May 4, 2016 at 2:51 pm
A lot of it was in the comment I posted! I never did get that textbook quote…
Sra. Sexton · May 4, 2016 at 10:51 am
A lot of it was in the comment I posted! I never did get that textbook quote…
Jessica Upton · May 9, 2016 at 8:40 pm
This list makes me smile for so many reasons! Thanks for sharing! I definitely got a chuckle out of several of them. 🙂
Jessica Upton · May 11, 2016 at 11:58 pm
This list makes me smile for so many reasons! Thanks for sharing! I definitely got a chuckle out of several of them. 🙂
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