>>11102568all the time, I help run a mentorship group, run a peer meditation course, and support my colleagues and students who are in an academic foundational skills course
I was like that too, hell, it wasn’t til I was in grad school that I took school seriously. But that’s part of the reason I decided to teach, because even the quiet one, or the tagger, the kid who hates structure, the ones who love drawing, want to learn. It just becomes a challenge to find their learning preferences. connecting it to their cultural understandings, and structuring lessons and activities to help them flourish. The ones who hate reading/writing may hate textbooks, but if I ask them to make a comic strip on the topic we’re covering, they may give 110%. I teach languages so a lot of my work is based on them playing with the language and making videos, songs, news reports, comic strips, advertisements and infographs, interviews, even speed dating.
It’s always fun to try and find new ways to engage, but I get where the other teachers are coming from too. We have a lot on our plate and so many teachers are jaded from the diminishing authority and investment from stakeholders. I have colleagues who run out the door before the kids do at the end of the day, lots are burned out and just collect paychecks. Those are the ones who are refusing to adapt, refuse to continue learning, and more importantly, refuse to help the future
