Classroom Management Win!

One more week down! I picked up another class this week, Horticulture. We hoped right into doing some germination labs and will start another one tomorrow. We have 2 types of seed, corn and soybean, from 2 different farms. We will have the opportunity to do some great comparisons between the two. 

My two sections of freshman were my highlight this week. We watched the Temple Grandin movie, which if you haven't seen, I highly suggest you do. Great movie! But besides the movie itself, I implemented a new classroom policy, and it worked perfectly! I bought a small wooden crate from Walmart and told students that anyone that gave me there phone, would get 2 bonus points. So they could either miss 2 questions on the movie sheet or if they got the questions, it was straight up bonus. I also put my phone in the crate, to make it fair between the student's and I. I would say I easily collected almost every student's phone.  I will definitely implement this in my future classroom. 

My last class of the day... Landscape. Still trying to figure them out. Teaching Pesticide Certification is not the most enthralling thing and I know that, but I'm running out of idea's. As a kinda last ditch effort to encourage student's to participate is by making every Friday a Fun Friday. Meaning we won't do Pest Cert  on those days. But rather a 21st century skills based lesson, either using a game or Life-knowledge lesson. Hope it works. Wish me luck.

Also, the groundhog saw his shadow.... so hope I don't get buried in anymore snow!