While I do many things on my campus, I do not manage the Seminar program for GATE kids. I do not want to manage the Seminar program. I simply teach the students. However, our 9th grade counselors seem to think that since I teach the 9th grade seminar course, I should manage the program. Due to this error on their behalf, there has become a bigger communication error. The parents do not know who to talk to. It makes life difficult when I request that the counselors forward any questions to the person who does manage the program, and they continue to contact me. While this issue is small in the bigger scheme of life, it is one of those issues that make teaching something others love to claim is unprofessional.
Beyond those issues, I sat in a wonderful GATE Teir II certification course on Saturday. I learned about Lateral Thinking, Abductive Thinking, and Problem Based Learning in great depth. I am excited. I have ordered the following books and can not wait to receive them from Amazon.com.
