Thursday, March 10, 2016

Wondering

I woke up wondering: wondering about today's weather: wondering about my lesson plans, wondering about going 1 to 1 digital next year, wondering about assessing students, wondering about our Thursday Socratic discussion routine, wondering about my PLC group,  wondering about students' understandings of Macbeth, and wondering about comments on the blog.

I wonder why some comments are posting more than once. I wonder why commenting on Blogger blogs is so challenging when I'm using my phone or the iPad mini. I wonder if the settings for comments are creating double and triple postings?

I woke up wondering about grades. The end of the quarter nears and I know my students, high-achievers and gifted among them, worry--sometimes incessantly--about grade percentages. I woke up wondering about weighting grades and teacher grades and make up policies and motivation. I wondered about drive and outliers and traits of children tagged gifted. I woke up wondering about the pollen count and the coughs per class period and the sneeze to tissue ratio. 

Lots of mid-week wonderings today. Do you wake up in wonder? I do. It's one of the things I love about teaching: all the wondering.

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8 comments:

  1. I woke up grateful to feel good! I have been wondering for the past three days what could have made me sick.

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  2. Yes! The questioning and wondering keeps me awake, but it also keeps me alive.

    I can offer a theory about the double commenting. I've noticed it happens when someone hits the back arrow. And the commenting challenges have me thinking about moving my blog. I've been wondering how hard that would be and what would happen to my blogger posts.

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  3. Most of the time I have these wonderings at night and I can't get to sleep! I hate it when I can't turn my brain off.

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  4. Constantly wondering...about many of these things and a few others. I love how you took us with you on the journey of wondering!

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  5. People...it sounds like worrying to me! Wonder produces more of a feeling of possibility for me than worrying about this, that and the other. I have these nights more often than I'd like, and sometimes the worrying wins!

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  6. We live in a world of wonder. I look more for the wonder, rather than pondering wonders. However you did mention a few of my wonders. When it comes to technical details on the blog, I have lots of wonders.

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  7. We live in a world of wonder. I look more for the wonder, rather than pondering wonders. However you did mention a few of my wonders. When it comes to technical details on the blog, I have lots of wonders.

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  8. We live in a world of wonder. I look more for the wonder, rather than pondering wonders. However you did mention a few of my wonders. When it comes to technical details on the blog, I have lots of wonders.

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