This is a reboot blog post. I have not been blogging lately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because I have been tired. Because I have been teaching in two modes five or six periods every day, and I have nearly 30 students in my room for much of the day. And I have been pretty scared of getting sick. And maybe dying. Although I eventually got less worried, at least consciously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have also been tired because this school year has involved lots of schedule changes and students coming and going from my class, making it different to develop a class culture in each period. Without a coherent class culture, it becomes difficult to have the great class discussions that lead to great learning. In a normal year, I generate energy and engagement in the room and the students generate it back, and energy flows both ways, and so teaching is… energizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of the time this year, however, my most of my students seem to tired and stressed to bring a lot of energy, and so there is a lot of slumping and staring and playing cell phones and I try to provide all the energy, which flies out into my classroom and is sucked up into a vortex of low energy. And none of it comes flowing back out to me. Nothing escapes a black hole – not even light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So this school year has been about surviving. I have taught. I have done the comic strip. This blog has fallen by the wayside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But there are glimmers of hope – class periods that start to work. Student writing and discussion that show actual signs of life. And I got my first dose of the vaccine last week on my birthday of all days! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And now I find ideas about teaching in a pandemic, and teaching in general, are starting build up inside my head. I have written some of them down. And so I think I’m going to start blogging again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Look – I already started! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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