But there is
something deeply powerful about hearing a
classroom of your peers read life into a text by reading it with passion and understanding and inflection and... Instead of thinking when you're reading silently, «I wonder if anyone cares about this book,» seeing that every other
kid in the class loves this book, wants to bring it to life, enjoys it, is relishing the fiction and the words
in the story.
You might also,
in the same
classroom, but at a different time, be seeing
kids working on much more individualised, or personal investigations into
something that they need to work on, or
something that they have a strong interest
in.
In fact, sometimes when I see a child in my office who is failing or perhaps just floundering in school, I love to rev him up by saying something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your classroom and pick out a kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a kid who always seems to do everything righ
In fact, sometimes when I see a child
in my office who is failing or perhaps just floundering in school, I love to rev him up by saying something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your classroom and pick out a kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a kid who always seems to do everything righ
in my office who is failing or perhaps just floundering
in school, I love to rev him up by saying something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your classroom and pick out a kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a kid who always seems to do everything righ
in school, I love to rev him up by saying
something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your
classroom and pick out a
kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a
kid who always seems to do everything right.