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On Parallel Novels
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Simplicity is so key. That will be my meditation this summer. All activities and classroom management strategies come down to this: Be quiet and attentive and we’ll listen to and look at some language which everyone can come to understand. Everything else–jobs, personalization, jGR, calm/firm discipline, humor, stories, pictures, EVERYTHING–is just about getting that affective filter down and the input in. No big deal.
(Of course I say this easily but I still have a LONG way to go. Like I said, this is my meditation.)
Yes I really agree. You have stated the game very clearly. It’s not about the method, the various skills and techniques that we have uncovered here together and learned from Blaine and others. They are necessary, but they can’t work unless we develop the proper emotional mental sense of simplicity in our teaching, by being simple and slow and deliberate and calm and kind. That is a tall order in a school building. But it is the only way. Thank you James. This gives me a chance to once again post these words by Thomas Merton:
“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone with everything is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his work for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”