When one teacher shadowed students, she learned: ▪️ Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting ▪️ Students are passively learning for the majority of their day ▪️ Students are made to feel a little bit like a nuisance This is a must read.
I could not believe how tired I was after the first day. I sat down the entire day, except for walking to and from classes. We forget as teachers, because we are on our feet a lot – in front of the board, pacing as we speak, circling around the room to check on student work, sitting, standing, kneeling down to chat with a student as she works through a difficult problem – and we move a lot.
Put a Nerf basketball hoop on the back of my door and encourage kids to play in the first and final minutes of class Obviously, I was only shadowing for two days, but in follow-up interviews with both of my host students, they assured me that the classes I experienced were fairly typical. It was not just the sitting that was draining, but that so much of the day was spent absorbing information but not often grappling with it. I asked my tenth-grade host, Cindy, if she felt like she made important contributions to class or if, when she was absent, the class missed out on the benefit of her knowledge or contributions. She laughed and said “no.”
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