What Happened On Thursday...

This morning, the class began their presentations of Lee's Behavior Theorists. We were presenting "Transactional Analysis." I had put together 8-10 wrapup slides for the presentation, as I was "wrapup" guy. I put them all on a floppy disk for transfer to Wendee's notebook computer when I arrived.

Unfortunately, Wendee's computer doesn't have a floppy drive. Little did I know. So my slides for the presentation never made it into the presentation at all. We did pretty well, I suppose, but I didn't have alot to say without my slides.

We got through all but two of the presentations this morning. We then had a guest speaker, Joe Cuddemi, the principal of the new Kinard Junior High School, just opened this year. Kinard is now operating on the second floor of the new Fossil Ridge High School, which just opened south of town. Of *major* interest is the fact that Kinard opened this year with only seventh graders. Next year (when I will be looking for work) they will be adding 8th graders as well, and looking for teachers. Good to know.

Anyway, Joe was in to talk with us about Classroom management and Transactional Analysis (the same topic we had presented earlier in the morning.) It turns out that Joe is an amazing speaker, very dynamic, very interesting and very captivating. His talk and discussion really made alot more sense than I got out of the article that we had read for our presentation. It almost made some sense. He even included some roleplays with Lee and with one of the PP members, Julia, to demonstrate the use of the techniques.

I would be thrilled to have a chance to teach at a school with Joe in charge. He was an awesome presence.

In the afternoon, we met with Ali and reviewed some of our assignments that are coming due soon. I am not sure how the liaisons meeting went with the instructors at lunchtime, but Ali seemed anxious to "be on the same page" with the class about deliverables all of a sudden.

We then did some hunts in the computer lab for Lesson Plans and then called it a day.