I Don't Get it?
One of the many things I work on with my fourth and fifth grade students is intention.
Intention.
In class we work on ways for students to self-assess what they do "get" so they learn how to determine what they don't know and find assistance for specific need.
Each day it is my intention to provide my students with the most interesting and engaging learning I can research, design, and facilitate. When I am well planned, healthy, positive and rested this happens with great regularity. When I am tired it is tough. But when I am exhausted it is next to impossible. Everything is difficult. I feel like I am unable to articulate my needs to myself or others, I get sidetracked while teaching (and I am starting to think the kids realize this and are using it against me like kryptonite to Superman. A very tired, increasingly lazy Superman), and many times I read material and feel like "I don't get it".
Then my lofty daily goals and objectives for myself fade like sidewalk chalk after a rain and my only remaining intention is to make it through the day.
Today I made it.
p.s. the worst part is that I can't even claim to have fatigue from being up with Jonah all night. Hallie has been up at least twice as much as me during the difficult week we are having with Jonah's teething. Thanks babe.
When you told every single kid in the class that they shouldn't be friends with your current ex-best friend because he is mean did you intend for the situation to seem ironic when it ran its course?
Was it your intention to punch those kids in the nuts 'cause it sure looked intentional?This is the one that gets me the most, "I don't get it." It is clear that their intention is to seek assistance, but they can't seem to bring themselves to ask and are not able to express what it is that they do not get.
I don't get it.
Intention.
In class we work on ways for students to self-assess what they do "get" so they learn how to determine what they don't know and find assistance for specific need.
Each day it is my intention to provide my students with the most interesting and engaging learning I can research, design, and facilitate. When I am well planned, healthy, positive and rested this happens with great regularity. When I am tired it is tough. But when I am exhausted it is next to impossible. Everything is difficult. I feel like I am unable to articulate my needs to myself or others, I get sidetracked while teaching (and I am starting to think the kids realize this and are using it against me like kryptonite to Superman. A very tired, increasingly lazy Superman), and many times I read material and feel like "I don't get it".
Then my lofty daily goals and objectives for myself fade like sidewalk chalk after a rain and my only remaining intention is to make it through the day.
Today I made it.
p.s. the worst part is that I can't even claim to have fatigue from being up with Jonah all night. Hallie has been up at least twice as much as me during the difficult week we are having with Jonah's teething. Thanks babe.
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