Now that Emmett naps reliably I have some time to read.
Aside from books for book club, I've been reading some that I picked up at the library after seeing them recommended in our quarterly teaching magazine Professionally Speaking.
Right now I'm just getting in to and really enjoying Brain Rules for Baby and Raising Boys in a New Kind of World (which was written by a man who is a father and teacher locally in Caledon East, ON).
This book was published in 2011. I am finding his observations about behaviours in school right on the money - and not just for boys. However his suggestions about how to change schools are .
I suppose he makes the grand sweeping claim that all schools still require classes to sit silently and listen to the teacher to illustrate his points, but this is far from true for many classrooms (at least in my school). Granted, I guess statistically classrooms are still set up in "sage on the stage" style, but teachers are constantly adding to their arsenal of lessons that incorporate movement. I already do almost all of the things Reist suggests, but in the larger context of the "do what I say" culture (much of which comes from parents) it is a constant uphill battle to say the least.
I understand that we're the adults, and as the adults it's our job to change what's not working, but at some point I hope the kids decide to throw us a bone.
Aside from books for book club, I've been reading some that I picked up at the library after seeing them recommended in our quarterly teaching magazine Professionally Speaking.
Right now I'm just getting in to and really enjoying Brain Rules for Baby and Raising Boys in a New Kind of World (which was written by a man who is a father and teacher locally in Caledon East, ON).
This book was published in 2011. I am finding his observations about behaviours in school right on the money - and not just for boys. However his suggestions about how to change schools are .
I suppose he makes the grand sweeping claim that all schools still require classes to sit silently and listen to the teacher to illustrate his points, but this is far from true for many classrooms (at least in my school). Granted, I guess statistically classrooms are still set up in "sage on the stage" style, but teachers are constantly adding to their arsenal of lessons that incorporate movement. I already do almost all of the things Reist suggests, but in the larger context of the "do what I say" culture (much of which comes from parents) it is a constant uphill battle to say the least.
I understand that we're the adults, and as the adults it's our job to change what's not working, but at some point I hope the kids decide to throw us a bone.