Last day, I had to teach my students some characteristics related to reptiles. Of course, I had to read about them just in case. When the class started, they tried to be curious in discovering new information and they shared the material they had brought. Some minutes later, one group started the project about snakes and they wanted to know all sorts of snakes, if they are dangerous, or if they live all over the world. I told them, that snakes are very easy to recognize as they have long and thin bodies, and no arms or legs. They were totally enthutistic with the process of the class and they found it completly different, because they realized that they could work together in a relaxing way. If we think that they are only six years old, we will probably undestand that anger for learning. To sum up, my students showed me the pleasure of learning from others.
Miss Squirrel
Nationalities
1 year ago
Snakes and teaching… The first thing that came to my mind was the experience in Janet Frame's “You Are New Entering the Human Heart”.
ReplyDeletePoor elderly teacher…she was really afraid of the horrible creatures and had to pretend no fear at all in front of all her school children. The museum employee was trying to show the kids that there was no need to be afraid of snakes; that they had to “learn to love and protect snakes”. So as to prove that, he placed "a green snake, about three feet long, around the teacher's neck”. The petrified teacher tied hard to control her fear only because of her students. But unfortunately the snake suddenly moved, and the teacher lost control of herself, and threw away "the snake from her throat”; since “she could not promise to love and preserve what she feared”. Needless to say, her fear was stronger than the ethical obligation to teach to "love and preserve" snakes…
Emma
After reading the project you did , I thought about the same short story Emma Thought. Just in case you are going to take them to the museum do not allow any guide to hold you a snake around your neck!!!!
ReplyDeletePedro