Last week, during my session with D, my 15 year old student, I did something a little different. Instead of just making conversation, I pulled out a copy of Fluxx and a set of Rory's Story Cubes.
Fluxx is a game where the rules change based on what the card says, so it encourages reading, as well as conversation because the cards are very silly. The Story Cubes are a set of 9 dice with different pictures on each side. You roll them and tell a story based on the images that are showing. We had enough fun that neither she nor I realized the hour was up!!
I'm thinking this week of watching a little West Wing with her as well as playing Guillotine, another English heavy card game.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
If you give a man a fish...
When I was 15, I went to a Sunday program at the New York Aquarium, where we got to see the Beluga Whales up close. At the end of the program, the teacher mentioned that they had a docent program every summer. That summer, I applied and was trained to be a docent for the Education Department at the Aquarium, and began my love affair with education.
Since then, I have taught everyone from 3 year olds at a science activity to 90 year old Christians who wanted to learn about Israel. I have worked with the Ultra-Orthodox world as well as the secular anti-religious one and have learned something from each and every group.
This blog will follow my teaching experiences. This fall I will be finally going back to school to get my teaching certification, but don't plan to work full time immediately. I will however, be tutoring a special needs 5 year old in science, English, math and Judaism. I am also tutoring a 15 year old girl in conversational English.
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