When we take our class on an excursion, we have the whole damn thing mapped out meticulously in our heads, our clipboards, our inboxes, on our phones/tablets, and in the heads of our co-workers and students. Not just in this reality, either. We've got plans, backup plans, and contingency plans for every possible eventuality [...]
I won't lie, I got into education in the first place as a fairly academic exercise. I'd just finished my undergraduate degree in developmental psychology at my fairly straight-laced, empirical university, was still getting a pretty massive kick out of learning, and wanted to go and gather some real-world ammo for a Masters project. [...]
"It takes a village to raise a child." This mentality has guided my teaching for a long time, both as motivation and consolation. I've got another post brewing about mentors and teaching children and young people to seek guidance, but for now, let's just think about this idea. Without dredging out dichotomies of size, pace, [...]
