Suits- Blog Post 7- Routman Ch. 4

I'm not sure I remember walking into the doors of Anderson Mill not feeling the "sense of urgency" in my teaching.  Sometimes, yes, that is prompted by anxiety, but most of the time it comes from knowing and understanding the potential of every student that walks through my door.  I know they have average intelligence and are more than capable of learning. I know that they need a special teacher to influence then and instruct them in a different way than any other teacher in the building. I know that my students need to understand why the learn differently and how that understanding is so powerful for them.  I only have each group, each student for 50 minutes a day. I have so much to back in.  I try hard to make every minute count, whether its sharing weekends, decoding strategies, or a good book someone once read. I try my best for every conversation to have a direct purpose.

I want to do my students justice. I want the time they spend out of their general education classrooms to be more than worth it. I want the time in my room to make the difference in their education.  Lessons should be enjoyable, but involve a lot of different activities that allow to students to pracitce and express their learning.