You fail to prepare, then prepare to fail

As educators, most of the time we are prepared for the day with an arsenal of fabulous interactive, highly-motivating lessons. But some days, mostly after a long weekend, we tend to rely on our "wing-it" skills. Well, if you are like me and most people who don't fall into the category of genius know-it-all with an incredible ability for public speaking, those lessons suffer from what I like to call "reality check, you suck at winging-it". So we prepare our lessons before hand and man, what a difference in student motivation and the student involvement. So let's give our students the education they deserve. Let's be that teacher that the students remember as the one with the awesome social studies activities and the cool science experiments, the motivating math talks and the wacky writing assignments. By planning lessons with a high level of student interaction, our students will be better prepared as they plan their lives and life goals.