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Hi! I have some new followers since my last post, and just wanted to let you know the hills I'm willing to die on as an educator:
1. Homework is useless. If it's that important, build in time for the work during class. (And don't come over here calling it "home learning.")
1. Homework is useless. If it's that important, build in time for the work during class. (And don't come over here calling it "home learning.")
2. The texts and resources you choose to bring into your room show your Ss what, and whose voices, you value.
3. You don't need a list of rules and procedures. Be a good person, tell them to be good people. Most things will shake out. If you can spend an entire class period teaching your procedures, maybe you've got too many (my teachers w/lab spaces, I get it. Different situation.).
4. There is plenty of room to do whole class novels and independent reading. (Refer back to #2 for my feelings on whole class texts, though.)
5. Eating and going to the bathroom are not things teachers should be controlling; you don't get to regulate another person's body.
6. You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to.
7. Music almost always makes things better.
