Greetings my loyal followers. For today's blog, I wanted to briefly mention another aspect of teaching that seems to come up frequently in staff meetings and during professional development days but seems to be missing from your college curriculum. I am of course talking about how to deal with living in the age of the sensory break.
Today's students live in the in a fast passed world that never seems to sleep and because of that, they are less inclined to sit in a seat for long periods of time even when fully engaged and invested in the topic at hand. Even during clubs and activities, things students are passionate about, they need to get up and move every twenty minutes or so. These breaks allow students to decompress and reset before getting back to whatever activity or lesson is in front of them.
While these sensory breaks pose a problem for the future workforce, they seem to be almost mandatory for keeping a healthy and functioning classroom. So current and future teachers, its time we break out our yoga pants and start stretching because teaching just got a whole lot more active. I don't know about you, but I rather lose five or ten minutes having the class get up and move than complete a whole lesson where only one or two kids were focused enough to follow along.
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