AVReading Newsletter February: Movement
I believe that one of the most significant changes to my teaching through the years is the way that I think about student bodies within my classroom. It was just never something that was ever discussed in my teacher training courses, and it certainly was not a regular feature of my own middle or high school years. As a teacher, I conceived of students as these entities that merely showed up in the room, took a seat, participated in some writing, reading, and talking (along with a healthy dose of listening), and then they moved on to another class. I sometimes forget what that must be like. And then we will have one of those rare professional development days where we are asked to sit for long stretches of time, and suddenly I can get a feeling for what it must be like to move from class-to-class only to spend 48 minutes of seat time at each station. Of course, moveme...