Over the last few weeks I have read and commented on the blog posts of Mrs. Hadley. She is a teacher in Philadelphia at an all-girls school. She has four children of her own that she homeschooled until the high school years. In her posts she spoke about convincing the children that it’s not all just about a grade but how they learn the information. This was the primary focus of the first post I read. She wanted the point to be made that for some assignments there is no “right way” to get to the answer. A vocabulary lesson was turned into a group activity as an example of this. Children learn more when they have to search for or create an answer. The second post that I comment on was a follow up to a post that came between these two. The middle post mentioned the importance of exercise and how it can be used between or during activities as a way to clear the minds of the students and help them get back on task. The post that I commented on however was called “Following My Own Advice”. In this post she spoke about work that she had to do but wasn’t very excited about. She went out and raked leaves to get the energy to do her work. When she took a break she went back outside and regained the motivation to finish the task she had started. This takes discipline to stop the task you enjoy and go back but is also good for the individual. Exercise as a way of motivation is healthier than coffee and energy drinks.
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