A few extra minutes taken to give detailed instructions to your students can save several minutes of explaining how they misinterpreted your instructions
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Your intentions are noble, and I love how optimistic you are.
Some things that made me sad, that I learned the hard way: - a lot of kids aren't willing to think any more than they have to... until you motivate them to or show them "how" to think, or make it clear that your level of thinking is expected. This takes years, and some still won't do it. - middle school kids, at the beginning of the year, will want to PLAY, and won't remember anything you said until after they play. Actually, I think that's the way they are all the time. How could you chunk the Alexander thing so it took something like the first week, with a few minutes each day?
Well, that's good that you sound like an educator, it's like, your job!
I do thank you for the point and think I could make that work to my advantage. I'm not sure whether I would want to give them the mental picture and then remind them as time goes by, or if I could get them to truly reflect on it later... but I definitely would NOT let the kids get away with cinching their left wrists the way they have been doing at this placement. It's absolutely killing me.
I DID see the teacher I was observing today use almost EXACTLY what I wanted to teach, so I felt some encouragement on that part... especially since the kids seemed to accept it.
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Some things that made me sad, that I learned the hard way:
- a lot of kids aren't willing to think any more than they have to... until you motivate them to or show them "how" to think, or make it clear that your level of thinking is expected. This takes years, and some still won't do it.
- middle school kids, at the beginning of the year, will want to PLAY, and won't remember anything you said until after they play. Actually, I think that's the way they are all the time. How could you chunk the Alexander thing so it took something like the first week, with a few minutes each day?
Ha, I sound like an educator. Whoops. ;)
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I do thank you for the point and think I could make that work to my advantage. I'm not sure whether I would want to give them the mental picture and then remind them as time goes by, or if I could get them to truly reflect on it later... but I definitely would NOT let the kids get away with cinching their left wrists the way they have been doing at this placement. It's absolutely killing me.
I DID see the teacher I was observing today use almost EXACTLY what I wanted to teach, so I felt some encouragement on that part... especially since the kids seemed to accept it.
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