I’ve bust my shoulder falling on the ice so I’m home and attempting to amuse myself.  The tv’s on and my laptop is open.  Now that’s just any normal evening – the only reason I feel the need to justify it tonight is because it’s Friday and I feel that I ought to be out somewhere.  Who am I trying to kid?  I’ve got TMBett201o streaming live, courtesy of Twitcam and @eyebeams , Facebook is providing a constant stream of news concerning the weekend exploits of friends and family and Twitter is giving me live updates from the education world and beyond.  All of this from the comfort of my sofa with a cup of tea and a heat pack on my shoulder.  I’m as happy as I could be right now.

So what’s wrong?

Once again I am receiving more information than I can handle.  There are too many things to try and I want to do them all at once.  TeachMeet is adding  to this list, so as well as inspiring me with tales of excellent classroom practice and fabulous new learning and teaching tools, my mind is once again trying to find a space to store all of these ideas or more accurately – a way to fit them all in next week.  So to get started I went to the Glow login.  That’s when I realised that this post was necessary.

The trouble is I find it difficult to focus on one thing at a time.  My head is full of projects that I can’t start because I cannot choose which one to try.  I believe this is more about not wanting to put all the other ideas on hold rather than not being inspired enough by one.

This is really a reminder to myself that I need to set goals and targets at the beginning of each term.

Time to regroup and prioritise again.  I haven’t done this properly since I had to write personal profile statements for GTCS.  Tomorrow I am going to keep a log of all the ideas floating around, conceptions or projects already in progress.  Then on Sunday I will set my own targets for the rest of the term.  Hopefully if I can see in a straight line then my classes will benefit from a more consistent effort.

Will keep you posted.

4 Comments

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  By Sam, January 15, 2010 @ 10:02 pm

  Yes, completely agree! Not enough non-teaching hours in the day!
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  By Alan Hamilton, January 17, 2010 @ 12:04 pm

  Hi Stephanie

  I totally agree with you – too much to think about! I am starting to use CPD reflect (http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/cpdreflect/) to log my ideas and what comes from them. Needs a Glow login but worth looking at – can be used at your PRD too.

  Alan
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  By Melissa, March 3, 2010 @ 10:03 am

  Hello!

  I love your blog. And I stumbled upon this image, which I think is fantastic.

  http://sdisbury.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/motivation.gif

  I wondered where you found it, or if it’s yours? I’d love to use it if I may?

  I hope your shoulder’s better.

  Best wishes,

  Melissa
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  By admin, March 3, 2010 @ 9:13 pm

  Hi Melissa,

  Thank you for your lovely comment.
  This image came from a google image search for something like “carrot and stick” or similar. Unfortunately in the days before I really considered copyright. I’m sure that I have seen it in Microsoft clip art galleries in the past and have used http://www.tineye.com since to check images. Let your own conscience decide whether or not you want to use it – I have absolutely no objection and absolutely no right to object anyway.
  Kind regards,
  Steph.

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