This morning in our faculty briefing a teacher announced that he had a special tool for fidety students… a koush ball! I talked to him after the meeting about the koush ball and he told me that he had been to an education conference by one of the Brisish educational leaders who discussed the “new” concept of kinestic learning. In the conference he showed the teachers a koush ball and explained that the student can squeeze it or bounce it on one of the bands. This tool is to be used by students who fidget during classes. hhmmm.. ok. Seems like a classroom disaster to someone who grew up with koush balls…
Here is my daily schedule:
Every morning I start my day with a cup of tea get ready go to school where my supervising teacher makes me another cup of tea; then I teach two classes and partake in the faculty tea break, teach two more classes, eat lunch with tea; teach my final two classes, head home, drink tea with the family, eat dinner, then drink tea before going to bed. I am beginning to comprehend why the Boston Tea Party would have made the British so mad, 342 crates of tea dumped overboard. (The pretending to dump crates overboard in Boston didn’t really portray the impact, although it was fun.)