We had Saturday school this weekend to make up a snow/ice day from earlier in the week last week. We had a puppet-making workshop in AP Language for the two thirds of the students who made it out of the house by the time class started.
At this point, I think my students have sort of become acclimated to the weird world that is my class. I’m guessing that if you asked them what my weirdest lesson was/is, they’d probably all give you a different answer. So maybe we’re beyond hope in B109. Unless you want a list of ways to normalize the weird. Then, I got you.
-Do weird things every day.
-Change up your routine.
-Watch things/talk about things that are interesting to you. Show your outside-of-class interests.
-Get students talking to each other.
-Get students creating.
-Get students to explicitly connect your class to things happening in the outside world.
-Let the class be loud sometimes.
This, of course, is an incomplete list. I guess it all comes down to making connections, both academic AND interpersonal-- and letting those little moments of creativity and light guide your approach to the class.
-Do weird things every day.
-Change up your routine.
-Watch things/talk about things that are interesting to you. Show your outside-of-class interests.
-Get students talking to each other.
-Get students creating.
-Get students to explicitly connect your class to things happening in the outside world.
-Let the class be loud sometimes.
This, of course, is an incomplete list. I guess it all comes down to making connections, both academic AND interpersonal-- and letting those little moments of creativity and light guide your approach to the class.
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