Dear Jenny,
I am not going to lie, I was nervous going back to work. I looked in my classroom and saw the piles of papers that were on my desk, my mouse and markers barely to be found. I barely recognized my classroom, as I have had the students pain the walls in a multitude of colors and themes. It brought me great happiness.
My new thing I tried today was called Whole Brain Teaching. My original degree is in Psychology, specifically Child Psych, as I took the class 3 times to make sure I fully understood Piaget and his theory. (Or I might have failed the class a couple times due to the fact that I refused to do my homework.... but that is a different story.) My mother had given me a book last year called "Brain Rules" he is a Molecular Biologist, and I am a geek and love this stuff.
I hated school, I thought it was boring, and a waste of my time. Hence, why I wanted to be a teacher! So when someone tells me something that is interesting, I have to try it. Well I live a lot by Brain Rules, and how long I speak, I time it... and how often to change something up...
So my Instructional coach approached me and asked if I knew about whole brain teaching. I have learned a lot about it, and said I knew some. I started researching, watching youtube videos... and voila tried it with my 5th period class.
"This teacher is crazy!" - A kid turned to his partner and said laughing.
However, when I asked them what a theorem, a proof, and who Pythagoras was.... they could tell me perfectly!
So this new thing worked out well yesterday... now on to today..
Until tomorrow...
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