Comments on: Random Acts of Kindness

By: New Year’s Resolutions « Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:44:51 +0000

[...] I will do this random acts of kindness thank you card activity again in my Algebra 2 and Calculus [...]

By: samjshah

samjshah — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:51:09 +0000

@Greg I won’t get called out by anyone, or anything like that. My concern with that is more with my teaching style and the reputation I’m trying to build for myself. But yes, it turned out great. And a teacher who I mentioned this to on twitter did it in their class, and said it also was great. I love how good deeds propagate.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:13:34 +0000

What a great life lesson. I hope you do not get dinged for taking a few minutes out of the school year to do this.

By: Mr. K

Mr. K — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:15:14 +0000

spending class time focused on learning

I used to do this too. Then Dan’s comments about how prez blows it, and his trivia warm ups, plus a PD I went to that emphasized the importance of developing a relationship with your students as people, not as curricular receptacles, made me rethink this approach. If, by 5 minutes of time spent on non curricular stuff every day (which I still find educational, becausewe’re learning life and human interaction skills), I can buy back 10 minutes of dedicated focused learning, I get a win.

Of course, my student demographic is different than yours, but I think this idea holds true across a lot of variation.