Scott and I totally intended on starting this blog back at the beginning of the school year when we started this standards-based adventure. However, creating standards, creating assessments, figuring out how it was all going to work, and making the Excel Spreadsheet of Doom seemed to get in the way (or take precedence).
So, almost three quarters into our new adventure, and we would have to say things are going well. Just a little background, I guess, to get you up to speed. Our adventure this year took on the name Physiculus. We got permission from the Powers That Be to team-teach a combo AP Calculus / AP Physics block course covering two traditional 50-minute class periods. Hence the name Physiculus.
Scott has a strong math background due to teaching physics for the past 7 years, and I have a minor and teaching certification in physics. This gets me back into teaching and helping in physics after 12 years in the classroom. We also were a couple of singletons with no one really to bounce ideas off of in our departments...now we do.
What we hope to do with this blog as time progresses (as it inevitably always does), is write about how we progressed through our journey this past year in SBG, pitfalls and ah-ha moments we had, as well as hopefully connect with others making the same journey.
I'm excited by the progress we've made just this year and cannot wait to try Year 2 actually having a clue as to where it will go as the year progresses.
