The start of next year seems so far away, that I'm going to shift gears for a while and work less on plans and schemes and do more reflections. I have gotten a good education out of this past year and learned and developed a lot.
The challenge is to take the next few weeks and look back on what I've learned and get meta-cognitive about it.
Lately I've been thinking about how difficult it is to get students to match my expectations for them. I often find myself daydreaming back to when I was a student and wondering about how it was that my teachers, parents and role models taught me the standards that I've internalized. I have seen videotape of my teaching before and received feedback on my work as a teacher, but I'll never be able to see what I was like as a student. That's what I'd really want. To be able to see how I was taught, and how my peers were taught, and how we responded.
Until I have this information, or a real close proxy for it, I will be missing a great opportunity to get much better in preparation for next year.
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