These days, my students are older, but they still speak from the heart as each semester comes to a close. Some have perspectives about teaching and learning that grow from struggling in school. Others have ideas born from watching their own students. As the old saying goes, "Kids say the darnedest things!"
"You are a different kind of teacher," one student wrote in her exit ticket, "because you don't lecture so much and you make us do the stuff. Like that night you made us do the Means and Standard Deviation math! I wanted to just get up and leave because I can't do math. But, you said, everybody can do it. I was so proud of myself!
"You are not a regular teacher," another student wrote, "every single class you ask us questions about what we are supposed to read and so we try to divide up the reading and talk about it before class because we don't want you to think we're stupid."
"You are not a normal teacher," another student shared "you made us write all the PLAAFPs, Goals, and Benchmarks in class in front of you while you were watching and then you made everyone share even if they didn't want to do so!"
I was grateful for my own review as different, not regular, and not even normal; however, i was really sad to think what these almost master teachers perceive as regular and normal!
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