So, today I am sitting at my desk in study hall, feverishly working on assignments for my Exceptional Learners class. Between questions from middle school students I am able to get quite a bit of my schoolwork done at work – the upside of working in study hall, I suppose. I had a student working on my desktop computer that is situated just adjacent to my desk. And what to my wandering eyes should I see? An eighth grade student working on an Inspiration diagram. I leaned over to him. By the look in his eyes I was pretty sure this was the worst thing that had happened to him today. I didn’t take that too personally. After all, it was only first period. I asked him, “Hey Jake, is that an Inspiration Diagram?”
“Yeah.” He said not taking his eyes off the screen.
“What-cha doing with it?” I queried.
“Literature.” He answered.
“You like those things?” I knew I was losing him and should wrap this up fast.
“They’re all right.” Still no eye-contact.
From as much as I could gather from my sideway view of his work, he was filling out characteristics of the book he was reading into a ready-made worksheet the teacher had put together.
There was something strangely exciting about seeing an Inspiration diagram being used by a real live student, other than me. It made the projects that we have been working on in our Ed. Tech class seem more “applicable” somehow. I knew we were going to use the things we were being taught in our future classrooms, but it seemed very “real” to see a tool that I have used, that I could utilize in the hands of a student. I’m a nerd…I know. Maybe going into education wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
http://www.mywebspiration.com/
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