Most kids want to engage, many have been taught there is nothing to engage with. You need to be the teacher who re-awakens that natural wonder. It’s kind of like a dare: are you up for it? I triple dog dare you ;) Okay, now that the obvious elephant in the roomhas been identified, let’s get to those three techniques
I talk about the Dynamite Lesson Plan and its power. Today, I felt like I lost the dynamite, I spent over an hour planning for tomorrow. Through a mixture of visual presentation, more breaks between the action, and marked focus on one standard as we begin to learn to work together, I feel tomorrow will capture their wonder better than today.
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This post is reflection on the first school day of 2008-2009 schoolyear:
The wierdest this today was looking in the mirror. Let me explain: When a schoolyear starts for a teacher there is a long routine of tasks you must do. You have to get the room ready and make the classes with your grade level [...]
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Okay so I have 4 days until I go back to work setting up my classroom. The kids come the following week. There is a lot of obvious stuff to grab at the grocery store discount aisle but then there are those essentials that the average parent may not think of. Here [...]
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