A Victorious Teaching Moment
The following is a victorious teaching moment with a fifth grader (whom I will call Bobby and who generally has a few challenges):
After I described how to hold a floor-hockey stick:
Bobby: “Ms. Green, that has ‘impossible’ written all over it.”
Me: “Well, Bobby, you have, ’I can do the impossible’ written all over you.” (It worked—he was off1 with the stick.)
Then, the next challenge with stick handling—introducing a ball to the handle:
Bobby: “Ms. Green, that has ‘hard’ written all over it.”
Me: “Bobby, you have ‘I can do something really hard’ written all over you.”
And he was off. He had a blast.2
Laurel Green
(Physical education teacher for fourth and fifth grades)
Windsor, California, USA
1 “Was off” means went away.
2 “A blast” means a lot of fun.