Guest Teachers

Today in Math, we invited students to the board to teach the class. What was a welcome addition to our learning, not all of the sharing at the board was accurate. This was welcome, because our learning is not in striving for perfection, it is in developing a learning space where students are able to be themselves. We also learn more when we make mistakes and find the details of our errors then when we "just know" and can't break down why we "know".

This summer, Ms. Leom heard a master's classmate explain, "The person doing the talking is the person doing the learning." The conversations, the math vocabulary, and the class discussions - lead by students, was one of the most effective classroom lessons this year!

It took several weeks to develop the foundations for our classroom to be a safe learning environment to make this possible. Some days we are more ready for this style of learning than others.

Here were some of our teachers today. We got so involved in the learning and discussion, Ms. Leom forgot to take pictures.