Welcome!
The purpose of this blog is to link today's generation of learners to yesterday's generation of teachers.
WATCH OUT BORING TEACHERS...............
your days are numbered!
SO.... I expect all you young "whipper-snappers" out there to share with us "old fogies" the most dynamic lessons you've encountered that have impacted your learning as well as those scarred memories from the worst "teachable moments lost" in history!
Points to Ponder and Post Upon:
- Your earliest positive classroom experience.... include as many elements as you can remember that you believe, in retrospect, influenced it.
- Your most FAVORITE assignment ever , for a subject you had absolutely no interest in.
- Your favorite technology or forum to use to do assignments with.
- Your LEAST favorite thing that teachers do or your worst classroom memory.
ANYTHING ABOUT LEARNING OR TEACHING YOU WISH TO SHARE!
I honestly don't think I had a positive classroom experience until college whenever I took Social Science with Rocky Tyler. I love when a teacher actually cares about what they arre teaching. My favorite classroom setting is when you learn about a subject, then you basically have a debate about it.
ReplyDeleteMy worst classroom memory is having a teacher who makes every question a student asks, look dumb. I can't stand it.
Just now reading comments, sorry for the delay. I am so saddened to hear that you went through school and came out with that experience. It is clear that things need to change. That's why I chose this subject for my blog. I can't changed what happened to you, but I hope you can take comfort in my promise that I will make it my mission that no student ever leaves my room feeling like they aren't valued. As tough as it was for you, I know it will make you better at what you do! The Clarkson hit "Stronger" comes to mind when I hear your story. I hope it inspires you to think of how you can grow from this experience the next time you hear it!
DeleteI had mostly good experiences with teachers, some being more fun than others. The only thing that wasn't appealing to me is when we used our selves to learn to measure. To me comparing and measuring our bodies was still very embarrassing at such a young age, and makes you notice the differences between you and your classmates maybe a bit to early (we even had to measure our waists!)
ReplyDeleteWOW. Thanks so much for this eye opener. As a preschool teacher trying to help students find relevant self associations with math concepts, I do activities like this all the time. I love my students so much that I never thought of this activity in that way. I always thought it was better to celebrate the way they are built through these activities in an effort to battle the stereotypical influence society has on our children, but I would never take up that cause at the expense of a child's feelings. I will never do this activity again. Do you think you could try to think back to those times and offer some insight on what could have been done instead that would have boosted your confidence in the activity?
DeleteThese comments were very helpful - I really am BABTEACHING thanks to them!
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