I find that I am not blogging like I want to. My days are so full and my nights are spent working on my laptop, looking for new exciting things I can use. I am tired today. I have gotten my kids into a great routine. They actually sit in their desk and work now. Atleast that is what I thought, until today. For some reason, maybe the rain, the moon, or just my luck, they talked, and talked and then they talked some more. What makes today different? I wish I knew. Whatever the reason, if I knew it, I would forever avoid it. I guess every one has one of those days. Today was ours. We worked hard through our chats. Even my students who always walk the straight and narrow, veered off the path. Perhaps I am the one who veered….
“I’ve come to the frightening conclusioin that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.” (Ginott)
