“Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.”
“More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given”
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Today during professional development, we were assigned to different classrooms in our 2 high schools. One thing I don't like about secondary schools is the lack of "fun" when you enter the classroom. The white walls are mind numbing!!!
However, today I walked into a reading classroom in the high school and I felt like I was walking into a 5th grade classroom! There were posters on the walls of reading strategies and reading workshop rules. There were books everywhere, organized in colorful bins and a big planet with vines in and out of the book bins! You walked into the room and you just knew this was a teacher that LOVES her job! More importantly, she LOVES her students! The room was so inviting!
Every wall was covered with home made posters and the white institutional feeling was not even remotely present. To top it all off... there were posters on the ceiling! What a great, different way to grab the students' attentions!
I wanted to be in this classroom!
There was one rule in particular that I thought really summed it up...
READ WELL. READ A LOT. READ WHAT YOU LOVE.
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