AVReading Newsletter February: Taking Risks
A good deal of teaching is about balancing. We try to create a balance between a classroom that has too many rules and expectations and a classroom without enough of them. We try to balance a classroom between having too much fun and not enough learning and too much content without much fun. We try to balance between presenting ourselves as strong and confident figures who have everything perfectly planned and presenting ourselves as open and vulnerable beings willing to take risks. It’s a lot easier to stick with the former. If you are like me, you love control. You cherish a lesson where you know exactly what is going to happen, where things move along exactly as you had orchestrated them, and where everybody does exactly what they had been instructed to do. With that said, I must admit that some of my most transformative educational moments hav...