{"id":1492,"date":"2015-09-08T21:19:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2015-09-08T21:19:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T01:19:24","slug":"day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"Day one"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past four years, we’ve begun with an activity that we stole<\/del>adapted from Mark Springer. We ask students to answer the question of how they want to be known in four words. The process of identifying what those words might be last several days, sometimes up to a week, as the entire class must come to a consensus about what they mean and why. We then use those words all year; one of my great highlights as a teacher was hearing one of my students ask another this question on a subway car and the look of surprise and pleasure on the adults who hear it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this year I have eleventh graders and they’ve been through this process twice. Some poor souls have even been through it twice with me. One of our opening activities, then, was for them to identify the process they would like to use to come to the four words. We know that we only have a few days to get this done (September in the SDP will be an absolute mess) and I know that they’re not totally thrilled about doing this again. First, though, I asked for a volunteer to run the conversation (hard with 23) and a volunteer to write.\u00a0 Why we do our four words:<\/p>\n

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Only one of these is mine (see if you can guess).\u00a0\u00a0 TD quietly contributed reflection, which I thought was exceptional, as he said we could “use these words to reflect.”\u00a0 I loved J’s idea too, that these words would help us forge an identity for our classroom.\u00a0\u00a0 And the fact that someone could see that this is a tradition, something we’ve done before and that maybe they will always do at our school…well, that was awesome.<\/p>\n

A good first day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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