Gregory Webster, a first year teacher, wrote for Edutopia an article about engagement - making lessons sizzle. I thought it was great that in the first paragraph, he writes, "As a first-year teacher, I saw a good number of my lessons fizzle out." That type of realization is so hard to accept, but once you do, as a teacher (perhaps in life as well), you realize - it's OK to fizzle and it's the only way to learn how to sizzle. Thank you, George, for putting that out there!
Through education, learning, trying out lessons, testing ideas, and adhering to carefully chosen methods sizzling success will come.
I must confess as a math teacher when I saw first saw this article on Edutopia starting with the word "Poem", I marked it as read and moved on. But your comment caught my interest so I went back and read it. Not only did I like the part that he recognized his "frizzle" lessons but, more importantly. how he drew from his students that extention of the Frost poem. That's what teaching is really all about anyway.
ReplyDeleteHa! I marked it as read also because the title didn't grab my attention either. It really was a great article. Thanks for reminding me that I shouldn't judge an "article" by its title.
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