[Sidebar: Thanks for that headline opportunity, Drake. I sincerely hope that this is the last time I will ever be grateful to Aubrey Graham... for anything. Meh-- stranger things have happened.]
This was the classroom that I inhabited for two very informative, profoundly life-changing years.
I was surprised by the lack of emotion I felt upon closing my classroom door. Perhaps, it was because I'm not closing the door to my connection to the campus, my colleagues and students: a recognition of the fact that my experiences at my Atlanta school are inextricable from my pursuits outside of the classroom.
As I stripped down the many artifacts adorning those cinderblock walls, I couldn't help but beat myself up over how much I hadn't done with and for my students.
How I didn't convince them of the beauty that I see in Mathematics.
How I could've better demonstrated how often we use algebra in our lives.
How, developmentally, we needed to get past calling on the teacher when someone has 'stolen' your pencil.
How I left some students right where there were when I met them...
[//More after the jump]
This was the classroom that I inhabited for two very informative, profoundly life-changing years.
I was surprised by the lack of emotion I felt upon closing my classroom door. Perhaps, it was because I'm not closing the door to my connection to the campus, my colleagues and students: a recognition of the fact that my experiences at my Atlanta school are inextricable from my pursuits outside of the classroom.
As I stripped down the many artifacts adorning those cinderblock walls, I couldn't help but beat myself up over how much I hadn't done with and for my students.
How I didn't convince them of the beauty that I see in Mathematics.
How I could've better demonstrated how often we use algebra in our lives.
How, developmentally, we needed to get past calling on the teacher when someone has 'stolen' your pencil.
How I left some students right where there were when I met them...
[//More after the jump]