Every day I try to learn something, some days I have to force it, and others it just so happens to fall into my lap. Last week I had this learning fall into my lap (it's kind of my favorite kind of learning). What I learned isn't anything concrete, it's not factual based - more like a philosophy or a musing. Here it is:
If you give students the opportunity to amaze you, they will. If you push students to work above their level by systematically planning to do so, they will. If you stop taking "No" or "I can't" as answers, they disappear. If you let your students explore on their own, they still will learn.
I know this sounds pretty "hippie-dippie" and unfortunately I agree, but I do believe this. For instance, if I gave you all a simple question for you to comment on in this blog post, it would be "What is the significance of the candle?" Will you answer? I bet you do...
are we blogging this week with the short break and the holiday and all..forgot to ask you about that for homework when we were leaving Thursday?
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