Every morning, students and teachers assemble to pray the school prayer:
“…Help me to think in a kind way, to act in a kind way, to speak in a kind way….” Every morning offers a fresh start, to acknowledge God’s love for us in Christ and how we may love and serve Him in the way we treat each other. And every morning I am challenged to consider: Can I live out this prayer throughout this day? And for my students: How can I support them to seek to do likewise?
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Let's be realistic. Time for reflective planning is a luxury we don't always have. But let's not give up! Sometimes the best ideas come in a flash of inspiration. Even in those last moments as we prepare for a lesson, we can be open to seeing a new way to engage young minds. To ask: "What if...?"
What if that we could take our students, and maybe ourselves, to new and meaningful places of discovery and learning? Sometimes all that is required is a simple, yet effective, pedagogical shift. "I'm going to teach my parrot the good stuff!”
And with that remark the little Year One student joyfully proceeded to ‘teach’ her parrot to repeat the repertoire of kind words we had decided as a class we wanted to use with each other in our language lessons. In every corner of the classroom, parrot puppets were undergoing serious instruction from their young owners and squawking back their replies. The parrots were being prepared to go home to ‘teach’ a family member how to say kind words in Italian. It was a delightfully noisy way to begin cultivating the culture of hospitality I was hoping to develop over the course of our year together. |
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