Comments on: How Was It For You? http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/08/how-was-it-for-you/ Challenge The Status Quo Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:42:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Reflections on my first week back at school at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/08/how-was-it-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-16441 Reflections on my first week back at school at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:01:28 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/08/how-was-it-for-you/#comment-16441 [...] Damian Bariexca has challenged me to reflect on my first week of teaching. It’s actually been a week and a half, but I’ll ignore that. As someone who’s always in favour of a spot of reflection, I’ll take up the challenge and keep the questions as the same as Damian used from Todd’s original post. [...] [...] Damian Bariexca has challenged me to reflect on my first week of teaching. It’s actually been a week and a half, but I’ll ignore that. As someone who’s always in favour of a spot of reflection, I’ll take up the challenge and keep the questions as the same as Damian used from Todd’s original post. [...]

]]> By: My First Week at School, by Damian, age 6 : Apace of Change http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/08/how-was-it-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-16383 My First Week at School, by Damian, age 6 : Apace of Change Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:37:13 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/08/how-was-it-for-you/#comment-16383 [...] Many moons ago, Todd asked, “How Was It For You?” Since he started about a week ahead of me, I couldn’t respond at the moment, but in the spirit of reflective teaching, I’ll now answer the same questions he asked himself. [...] [...] Many moons ago, Todd asked, “How Was It For You?” Since he started about a week ahead of me, I couldn’t respond at the moment, but in the spirit of reflective teaching, I’ll now answer the same questions he asked himself. [...]

]]> By: Rick http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/08/how-was-it-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-16315 Rick Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:09:30 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/08/how-was-it-for-you/#comment-16315 Yikes, I'm a little late on this one. We've had a good start to our year, although we've had several major behavior issues with our very young kids quite early this year. About 5 of them are taking up the majority of my time right now. That said, we have an outstanding, positive staff at our school, and I think we're going to have a great year. Yikes, I’m a little late on this one. We’ve had a good start to our year, although we’ve had several major behavior issues with our very young kids quite early this year. About 5 of them are taking up the majority of my time right now. That said, we have an outstanding, positive staff at our school, and I think we’re going to have a great year.

]]> By: Damian Bariexca http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/08/how-was-it-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-16037 Damian Bariexca Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:11:03 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2007/08/how-was-it-for-you/#comment-16037 Thanks for the shout-out, Todd - that was my song activity you used! Glad it came in handy for you (my sophomores usually like it, too). I do it for exactly the same reason you describe - gets their hands dirty with literary analysis, however basic, right from the giddy-up, and helps set a work-focused tone. I don't go back to school for another week, but I'll be sure to answer your questions when I do. Don't despair yet - I had a group last year that sounds much like your Speech & Creative Writing kids, and they ended up being a pretty good group overall. Thanks for the shout-out, Todd – that was my song activity you used! Glad it came in handy for you (my sophomores usually like it, too). I do it for exactly the same reason you describe – gets their hands dirty with literary analysis, however basic, right from the giddy-up, and helps set a work-focused tone.

I don’t go back to school for another week, but I’ll be sure to answer your questions when I do. Don’t despair yet – I had a group last year that sounds much like your Speech & Creative Writing kids, and they ended up being a pretty good group overall.

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