Entrance slip: October 14

Dancing teachers into being with a garden

how these ideas interact with your own hopes and concerns about taking up the profession of teaching

"It begins with noticing that teachers are in the squared-off boxes of classrooms for most

(or all) of their teacher education experiences."

I find myself butting heads with a lot of ideas in this article,  on of how I would run my classroom. I don't really find my self wanting to teach in a garden or dance. It talks about being in a classroom being a problem but I just don't see it that way. If anything taking my students outside presents more of a problem from my viewpoint. I plan on incorporating technology, which most of the time requires wifi, or the projector, my students will need a place to write on, and I can't expect them to bring out their table in and out, the weather will be unpredictable. I could go on and on. 

what images and metaphors you take away from the reading

" teachers and learners sit inside rectilinear rooms, at tables, chairs and desks, and talk about things

that are not present, within the straight-line, right-angled grid structures that are

always present. Tiled floors and ceilings, windows, boards, ranks of chairs and desks,

bookshelves, boxes, the corners of the room itself, all are rectilinear."

It talks a lot about how these things essentially "box" us in, and create almost a prison, but I don't see it that way. Schools can be a place for creative freedoms if the classroom and teacher allows it. It's not the place that's important, it's the people and the mindset. You can't 'think outside the box' if you're never in the box. 

things you agree and disagree with, wonder about and/or can extend to other ideas about teaching in a fast-changing and uncertain world.

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