The Egypt Immersion (a year later)
This event seems so long ago. Since the publishing of the Postmortem of the Egypt Immersion post, I have completed my masters program and moved 3000 miles to the great state of Washington. I was not able to oversee the implementation of this project this year and wonder what the teacher who replaced me did to improve it. I have sent an email and hope to update this post with those results.
Looking back now on my experience as a teacher at this wonderful school, I realize I was given many opportunities to be creative with my lesson plans. Projects such as the Egypt immersion allowed me to think beyond my classroom and include all team members in lesson planning. I think the ideas we decided on to improve the immersion were good and hopefully were useful for the new 6th grade team. I still believe conducting a post-mortem as soon as a project is completed is very important. It is easy to forget what has worked and what hasn't if too much time goes by. I thank my team members for being such good sports and supportive of this work intensive unit.
