Thursday, July 27, 2006

Clarification

"but whgat is overwhelming is the amount of things I can do with these tools Iove learned... and of course, the fear that I am not using them to their best potential."

I'm confused, can you clarify? Thanks.

But what is overwhelming is the amount of things I can do with these tools I've learned... and of course, the fear that I am not using them to their best potential.

See, when it comes to these GATE strategies, there is not one cut and dry way to use them... its not spelled out in a curiculum book (like everything else is) which is one of the reasons that I love teaching GATE so much. There are so many things you can do with them!

The thing is, I can sometimes think of 5 ways to apply GATE strategies to a lesson (which would be overkill, redundant, and frankly there just isn't time) so choosing which way to apply the strategies on a particular lesson, which way would be the best, the most meaningful,

- and then the fear that the "best way" hasn't even occured to me...

or, if there is no "best way" then the knowledge that there is probably a better way that I haven't even thought of yet. Does that make sense?

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