Feb 20, 2019 12:00:00 AM
My students loved it and had a great time racing in teams, and as we were debriefing for closure that day, I started giggling and told them that I’m glad they’d enjoyed it—that I had originally batted around the idea of rolling them down the hall in a tractor tire! I just knew they were going to laugh me under the table for such a notion, but instead there was a sudden uproar of students begging me to let them do it! They offered to wear helmets, to sign waivers, to not get hurt at all—whatever it took to roll in a tire down the hall. Spoiler alert: I didn’t roll them down the hall in a tire. The point was never about going through with a harebrained idea; the point was that my excitement about bringing a literary-inspired project to life generated an eagerness in them to love learning and do more with a text then they’d ever dreamed prior. I love when that excitement blossoms in our classroom. I love the energy and the vitality of it, and that is probably why loving teaching comes so easy to me. I love laughter and wide-eyed stares of wonderment and anticipation. My favorite moments in the classroom are when I have succeeded in galvanizing my students’ spirits, awakening their brains and bodies, and harmonizing all three—mind, body, spirit—into an adventurous, artistic synthesis created by literary emersion. And that is why I #LoveTeaching; teaching lets me inspire creativity, generate positivity, and promote a joyful confidence that all students deserve to experience. How can you not love that?!
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