Plan,plan,plan

It's so obvious that Dr joy is very persistent on teaching us the APA style of writing our summaries and reflections, so she prepared a well structured lesson plan, she wanted to show us the right order of the reference, surname, first letter of the initial name, year of publishing, then the name of the book. then when we take the first chart sheet concerning the reference of the book, the journal, and                 the chapter of the book, there was a lot of wondering during the activity what are we doing and what's for but when I started to remember the last session to write my reflection , I found myself remembering the plan she made to drag us in the APA trap, so all of us returned our home remembering  most of the steps of writing the reference and if we needed any help we could revise the sheet of referencing she already provided us with.I'd like to engage my student in an activity they could remember with the steps of answering their problems in math. planning well to our lesson is very important to get excellent results.
The second assignment during the second part of the session was interesting to describe how our community at our  school looks like,  Dr Joy was pretty astonished from our description specially to our profitable schools , I'm looking forward to know her impression and feedback about the differences between our schools in Egypt and the rest of the countries.  

Expensive traffic jam

Being stuck in the worst traffic jam I've ever seen last Tuesday didn't mean only to be tired and late for 4 hours but also to miss one of my sessions at 504 and it seems that missing one session was very expensive, I'm a very punctual person, I have never missed any of my sessions during the whole Diploma except on that day, then I felt disappointed after knowing about the excitement you all had during your activity at the beginning of the session specially after receiving the powerpoint by mail.
my past week was stressful, too long, and tiresome, I discovered that the time I spend with my colleagues in the session is very important to charge my battery with new mood, ideas, topics to share with my school mates and children and moreover a big charge of motivation to continue my week with, any how I'd like to say thank you Dr Joy for the delightful and fruitful time I spend at this course and badly missed this week. 

classroom activities

yesterday was different than the past days at 504 as we were waiting for the results of our summaries, I was surprised for the too many details of APA style . I used the APA style with my previous journals and the instructors accepted them. doing the assignment twice was a little bit frustrating and it made me hesitant to deliver the reflection, I wished that Dr Joyanne to encourage us as she does with our reflections on the blogs, any way I would work once more on my assignment but with less motivation than before. the second part of the session was presenting various activities we could use at our class to reduce the teachers efforts in class and that motivated me to create more in my classes, and as I'm working on decreasing the TTT I found a great help. hopefully at the end that my next assignments would be agreeable.     

every time we meet I gain more information and the picture of community based learning get clearer, at the beginning of the session I realized that I've this invisible student, she's a chubby teenager girl who suffers from low self esteem, too shy, hesitant, and has no desire of sharing in class, she didn't do her home work more than once and started to pass me different channel books every day, so instead of accusing her and confronting her I tried to show her that I trust her and these small incidence will not affect my trust, actually on the next day I found her doing her home work and then I grabbed her to see her exercise and she wasn't doing it claiming that she didn't understand so I assisted her in the first part then I asked her to continue the rest alone actually I discovered that she's eager to please but she doesn't have confidence.
 knowing the characteristics of the components of the teenager character was very fruitful, it helps to understand why they don't get together, they don't share in team work, they don't take turns, they liked to chat with too many friends on facebook rather than building a relation with two friends  maximum in class, they easily get used to chat offline when they like to end it up.
how they feel about themselves according to their physiological changes between being proud or being ashamed of themselves.
I've too may AHA's moments during the demonstration of each one's project's goals data collection, and their procedures. I found myself screaming out loud I'm getting it now, I was so impressed by the project of each one, I thought at the beginning that it should be a project which integrates with my subject but I discovered that any project which can raise the motivation of the teenagers is acceptable, and I was touched by the idea that I can take my students' opinion so I decided to ask them today as we are planning to the event of school day we call it Elsian's day its theme is developing new Egypt so I intended to use the opportunity and asked them How to make our community a better one and I've got lots of wonderful answers I'll try to figure each one and start my plan.