I have been a student or a teacher (or both) most of my life. This means that tomorrow is the New Year's Day which most resonates. New classes, new students, new teachers, new routines. Some years there are new books, new lockers, new clothes. Always there are new promises.
I relish the opportunity to make new promises to myself and the people around me. Last school year was so overwhelming that the promises were more survival techniques than anything else. Not so this year. This year I will have a planning period every day. EVERY DAY! I will have time to find the wonderful video clips, the interactive software, the free downloads I like to use to illustrate my lectures. I might even have time to learn to use the Smartboard more productively. There is a hope that my classroom wiki will actually function efficiently this year.
This year I can make promises to myself, not just to my students.
I promise to search for beauty on my drives between school and home.
I promise to NOT spend so much time at school that I'm too tired to enjoy the rest of my life.
I promise to find ways to contribute to my neighborhood.
Three new promises are plenty. If I made 10 I would have no hope of keeping them all, and if I only made one I would not really feel the challenge.
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