As with any definition, we can apply what parts we choose to define ourselves. I don’t consider myself a hoarder, although someone else might! I see my act of preserving something for future use is thinking ahead. After all, no one is tripping over boxes of files all over the floor, piled to the ceiling, right?
Summertime is usually the time I could be quoted as saying “I promise honey, I will put it all away!” “Right after we finish this movie, I promise!” Yet, the pile of worksheets, children’s books, and administrative papers still sits in it’s little corner of the home office. It seems I always have something more important to do, (like writing this blog!).
I am changing grades this year again, from second to third, AND I am most familiar with first grade after I taught it for 8 years! I am expected to teach with “differentiated instruction” which means many different levels of difficulty for the same objective, for each lesson. So, in essence, I should keep all that super helpful paper for it’s intended use, right? The problem is actually getting it filed under the correct heading so I can find it if I actually use it in my classroom this year. Do any of my teacher friends do the same thing? Most of my teacher friends are over achievers and have probably already done this task because they always seem to have something I would like to borrow! I must be on the lower end of that differentiated instruction scale because even though I know I have it “somewhere” I can’t readily find it when that lesson is coming up (unless I go through that pile sitting in the corner of the home office…)
Cheers to all my over achieving friends who have completed this task and please send me motivational thoughts so I can join you!