Hurry up.
posted by Sarah @ 5:51 AM
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Monday, October 27, 2008
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Guilty, guilty, guilty! I know that I am guilty of this one! It feels like I have so little time with my students and I want them to get as much out of the period as possible. I have been adding more long term assignments to the mix though. Giving my students due dates that are a few days away, a week, and even a month away encourages them to work to manage their time and give the opportunity for the in depth analysis that I am seeking. This is one I definitely need to keep working on.
This is just so much a part of the world we live in today! Everyone is in a hurry and it creates a stressful environment! I am focusing on stopping when a student says hi or wants to show me something because truly what is the big hurry? We need to stop and "smell the roses"(children in our cases!) and enjoy where we are each day. When a child waves at us, we need to stop and take the split second to make their day! They need us and each time they reach out to us they show us more and more how important of a role we play in their lives. What a compliment it should be to have students want to stop and say something or even just wave to us!!! As a person who is always LATE and HURRYING, enjoying each moment with the kids is an area I am really working on!!!
This really hit home with me. I am so aware of the clock in terms of getting my resource kids back to class on time, yet I feel pressured because it often takes more time for my students to process the information and it seems like just when we get to the heart of something, that it is time to leave and then I am asking my students to hurry up and get their idea down, or to wait until I can record their thought. I was also interested in the idea of surface skimmers from a different prospective, (that of a professional with too many fish to fry). I feel like I am surface skimming with my technology assignments. Even though I know I have weeks to complete projects, I feel that I do not have enough time to learn anything well enough to put it into my working memory; and each time that I go back to work on my ongoing project, I have forgotten the steps, passwords, or something and I end up relearning the basics before I can start the task. This has really given my a perspective about what my resource students must be experience when they are working in the area of their disability and feeling inadequate.
As a teacher of young students, many of our activities take us a "long time" to complete-- it takes us a long time to clean up, line up, pack up.... This chapter really made me think about how young students can become so passionate about any small event or item, and as teachers, we should think about giving the opportunities to explore their passions. I feel like I always have one eye on the clock! Even though I might have a day full of exciting activities, it's amazing how the kids can just get latched on to one of those! Thinking about this brings me back to the mantra "be flexible." How true this is with our students! No need to rush through a whole day-- it's quality, not quantity.
So true. Can we stop this hurry-up sickness before it becomes a terminal disease? This is so prevalent in our schools. I'm really going to work on creating tasks that might alleviate this in my classroom and remind myself that there is no need to hurry up because it is harmful to students.
This "hurry" business is so harmful to language delayed students as well as students who may have some word finding and fluency problems. It is hard to wait for those students to express themselves. We tend to finish their responses or interrupt, thinking we are helping them through the struggle. So important to not hurry those students, although it is difficult at times.
This is an area that I have been working on as a teacher. I am not perfect yet and still catch myself in the hurry up mode due to the clocks and calendars on my walls. I really want my students to spent more time with in-depth critical thinking skills. I must however teach my students the skills of time on task and transition time from one subject to another so that more efficient time is spent on our subjects each day. I have been giving my students more time to study for assessments. I do not place a time limit on assessments. Students need the time which helps limit stress on their minds. I emphasis with my students quality of their product. As a matter of fact I see the students in the "Hurry Mode" more so then I. I let them know that we are not able to produce our best work if we don't slow down and put more thought into it. Again, quality and pride is what we need to practice in our classroom which in turn will produce success for all students. I am going to continue to do my best in modeling quality first in the classroom and that rewards are achieved through quality work and not always being the first completed. That being the last one completed will achieve success.
I saw some of this surface skimming attitude in my college students - "How many words do you want", "How many pages do you want". "What points in the chapter do we need to study for". I don't want them to hurry thru their assignments, so they won't get the answers to those questions in my classes.
Children react to "hurry Up" in many ways. Some react with increased anxiety and that can manifest in inertia or never trying, some by getting to the finish line as quickly as possible regardless of the quality of work and some of them with increased irritability and help/hopelessness. We see it every day in every classroom. Perhaps we can reward students who catch us using hurry up so we can change or bad habits or perhaps we need to have the students reward us with a coin if we can refrain from using hurry up during the day.
I, too, need the 'snap snap' on this one. I completely agree that the rushing needs to stop. I will be more mindful of putting students in the unfortunate position of being in a hurry to meet 'my plan'. Ugh. I hate that I do that and look forward to big improvement in this area. A mile deep and and inch wide beats a mile wide and an inch deep any day.
It's so strange to think about, because it seems like the kids come to school in a hurry, so I actually think it starts at home with hurry up and eat, get dressed, brush your teeth, get in the car, we're late! This did however really make me think of my own words and ask myself why I'm in such a hurry sometimes. I don't know about making everything a huge project like paper mache as suggested in the book, but I like the idea of rewarding detail, and depth. In kindergarten we have to stagger the activities as suggested or some kids wouldn't even get the "skimming" done, let alone any in depth work. In my class, we often have kids finishing durning centers or a story, but a lot of times I think it has to do with all the socializing, rather than a lot of extra effort. There are times when the extra time really pays off and you get to see something great. That is worth it.
I am as mentally guilty of this as anyone. The only asset I have is that my students don’t follow the same learning paths as most of the other students. I usually feel that I am way behind where I would like to be, however, hopefully I am right where my students need to be. I feel that our system is setting a pace for our student that’s very hard to meet. I know as a teacher, I am stressed about all the areas to cover, so I am sure my students are also feeling the push.
This time of year can be filled with "hurry up sickness" that pervades ALL of our environments. Kids sense when we are stressed and pick up on this in their actions. As teachers we have been taught though to keep kids on task at all times and utilize every spare moment as a "teachable" one. Kids have such busy lives at home too. I read orally to my class daily but all they are allowed to do during that time is sit and enjoy! :)
This is hard not to do. Sometimes we even hurry along because we think if we move too slowly with something we may lose their attention because they are so used to changing channels or fast action video games. Not to mention class time limitations..... I know I need to make an effort to slow down
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