My desk is messy — so is my job. Susan Ohanian writes in this piece that teaching should be messy — and that we should resist those who want to oversimplify it. It’s coming up on the end of a very tumultuous year for me — Ohanian’s essay reminds me of why the fight was worth it.
Take five minutes. Read. It’s worth it.
Use the time you would have used to straighten up your desk.
Messiness
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Thanks, Bud, for the link. It is a great article!
Thanks for the article. I love my NCTE and I appreciated the challenge that Ohanian lays out for all of us — to find the means to engage students in learning. As a first year, untenured teacher in California, I ask: how far can we go before the standards yank our collars and pulls us back? As I plan summer school, which includes a reprisal of the Vagina Monologues read by me, I think what I and other new teachers want to be sure of is that we can still can push the boundaries even with the standards and Arnold looming over us.
Is this true?