A Lifelong Learner Shares Thoughts About Education
From BlessingManifesting.com comes this visual representation of types of Self-Care. I found it useful to not lump all self care into a single category as it restricted the total number of items I could ponder to consider what area I might be struggling with. Solid resource.
I was reading What I Am Learning About My Students During an Impossible Semester by Jim Lang after searching for a value related assignment to restart my classes as we go back to work online while @home during the COVID19 #StayHomeSaveLives event. It was worth reading before I get going today, frames how I want to approach restarting, at least to try.
What I intend to attempt is to ask this question, framed for this time:
“What are you good at in school?” I asked. “What do you care about in terms of your academic work? Do you love to participate in class? Are you a good leader on group projects? This is an English class, but maybe your strength is with statistics or math. If so, tell me about it. If I know about what you’re good at, maybe we can find a way for you to use it in this course.”
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/2328-what-i-am-learning-about-my-students-during-an-impossible-semester?cid=VTEVPMSED1
Could be reframed for a full start as:
What are you good at in school? What do you care about in terms of your academic work? Do you love to participate in class? Are you a good leader on group projects? This is an Computer Science class, but maybe your strength is with English or Choir. If so, tell me about it. If I know about what you’re good at, maybe we can find a way for you to use it in this course.
But for a Q4 restart as:
OPTIONAL: What have you found you are good at during the #StayHomeSaveLives event? What do you care about in terms of your academic work and future? What values do you think are important for people to show during this situation?
Here on Day #24 of the #SocialDistance #StayHomeKeepSafe program is another tidbit of something I didn’t know
WFH? Great, here is a tidbit
Today’s tidbit comes in the form an unwritten rule of English called Ablaut Reduplication. This is a simple rule to describe why “Tok Tik” sounds weird, but “Tik Tok” doesn’t.
