I love my kids. I love being creative. I love making them laugh. I love it when I can see their minds growing. I love, love, love teaching. I just need to remember all those things I love this time of year, when there is just too much going on, and the mound on my desk keeps growing!
These pictures are from a lesson I did, trying to teach students sequencing and steps in a process. We were learning how to tell someone how to do something, using good details. I blindfolded students and had them tell me how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Sounds easy, right? Well, not if you forget to tell the teacher to take the bread out of the bag and the peanut butter and jelly end up all over the plastic! Not if you forget to tell the teacher to open the peanut butter and jelly and spread it on the bread, and the jars just end up laying on top of the bread. Students got a great lesson in using rich details, especially since they couldn't see what I was doing...and I did exactly as they said! I wish I could post the pictures of the students. They all had big smiles on their faces. It was a fun day, and I forgot about the mound of papers on my desk, if only for a moment!
3 comments:
Isn't it great to feel empowered and capapble and like you're making a difference? Well done.
P.S. I miss that feeling.
Oh yes, you're not making a difference at all, you BIG DORK! You don't run a non-profit or anything, you should look into that. You should also adopt some kids and give them a good home...there's an idea.
Yeah, but most of the time i feel like a drowning idiot fishing around for the right path to take to get the job done. I am saying it is just nice to have something come second nature, like you fit perfectly in that pocket. I miss that feeling specifically. Maybe i will get there with all this, but i have a feeling it wont be any time soon.
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