Teaching
I stumbled onto this teaching blog Friday after one of my very excellent ECE teachers from Parkland shared a post on Facebook. I spent most of the morning reading through various posts (yes, I was home sick AGAIN—subject for another post!).
So after pondering the difference between what he’s doing and what’s going on in my classrooms, I’m feeling better about the whole experience. I don’t feel like there’s much meaningful play or learning going on in my room right now and it’s been bothering me. I don’t know why I didn’t realize this before, but it hit me like a ton of bricks today.
DUH. I have barely any kids in my classroom right now. One of them can barely talk, and another is in the two or three word sentences phase. My poor preschoolers just don’t have very many peers to interact with! I’m used to a teaching approach that’s very emergent and based on what the kids are doing, but there are barely any kids!
Now that I’ve had this realization, I think I can make it through the next couple of months while I gain kids in my room without feeling like the world’s lousiest teacher. We are doing lots of discovery stuff anyway, but it’s definitely the lack of child-to-child interaction that I’ve been feeling in there!
Needless to say, I can’t wait until my new preschoolers start!
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