10.21.08

Never Too Many Sharpies

Posted in Blog Reference at 6:01 pm by Abby

I’m writing this post tonight about another post on a blog that I have started to keep up with that is not that of one of my fellow classmates.  The blogger, Mystro2b, has a lot of inspiring and thoughtful things to say, and I enjoy reading them.  Go give him a visit and see for yourself!

This post is specifically about one of his own posts called “You can never have too many sharpies on hand“.  In this post, he gives quite a few wonderful technique suggestions, as well as ideas on how to word things not only when talking to students, but also to their parents, something very useful to keep in mind for the future!  I think the best thing about this post is that it takes a humerous approach to things that are really quite serious for keeping in mind.  You need to be highly prepared and have an abundance of resources of the oddest things because the kids will ultimately forget them when they need it.  I had never thought of the fact that I might want to be certain and have numerous sharpies handy for use!  Nor had I ever thought of having kids ‘fake play’ while working with the rest of the ensemble, though it seems like the most practical thing in the world to do!

His post just makes me think that despite the number of years of education classes that I’ve taken to prepare myself for the big picture of teaching, there’s still a LOT of fine points that I don’t yet know about.  But it’s people like Mystro2b that helps me to learn those fine point things before I go to the job!

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