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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (52065)	6/29/2002 12:30:14 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think the most important thing is that people have at some time in their lives been impressed as a child by an adult who models that kind of behavior. I am always looking things up, writing stories, reading all sorts of books, looking up and talking about words, and now all three of my children do that. When I teach I have a dictionary right by me, so we can look up words all the time. I make lists of things that come to mind, during lessons. I always write those tangential questions students have DOWN, so I make sure we address them later, and don't just forget them. If we are studying silent "e" words and someone brings up "cried" I write it down in my "parking lot" (it's a little place on the board that looks like a parking lot, and we put things there that don't fit in with the lesson, and then we deal with them later). I might say "This doesn't fit our rule, let's think about why not and put it in the parking lot to talk about later!" That way the children know I am interested, but understand and learn that you can focus and STILL make lists about other things you want to learn about. Focusing is very important. Not forgetting spontaneous thoughts is also important. I like to teach as many things simultaneously as possible- it is much more efficient.