Weblog Update: Slightly Off Kilter #2309, 2310

[Vicki Brown]

Recent updates to Slightly Off Kilter weblog:

"Substitute Teaching Vignettes #6"
Posted on 20180909 by Vicki Brown
In category: Teach

Subbing...

While I was on recess duty, a 1st or 2nd grade girl came dancing
(jeté) across the blacktop, stopped in front of me, and said, "Good
morning, ma'am, how is your day going so far?"

I blinked and replied, "Quite well, thank you. How is yours?"

She said hers was also going well.

I commented on the dancing ("Are you a ballerina?"). She said she was
not a ballerina, she just loved to dance. And away she went... jeté. ...

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http://cfcl.com/blogs/vlb/weblog/archives/002309.html

"Students Are Not Adults"
Posted on 20180909 by Vicki Brown
In category: Teach,commentary

I've been substitute teaching for a little over two years now. I've been
thinking, lately, about why 4th and 5th graders seem so much more
mature in class than 7th graders. (6th graders are in-between.)
Shouldn't students become more mature as they get older?

[Continued in commentary...] ...

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http://cfcl.com/blogs/vlb/weblog/archives/002310.html