A Different Way to Do Things.

[charisstoma]

Posing here too,because I really liked this one. It's teacher educational. *grins* Didn't we all play teacher when we were little.



Prompt #16: dog, run, big

Title: A Different Way to Do Things.
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 100

“See Spot run.
Run, Spot, run.
Spot is a dog.
Spot is a big dog.”

Glen really hated the early reading primer. Hated that he had to teach children to read using it. Looking out at the students and their small bored faces, he thought he’d try a different way of doing this lesson. Going to the board, he wrote the six words in a list then turned and pointing to each said the words.

“Okay class, let’s make our own story. I’ll write it one sentence at a time but each sentence must include one of our list words.”

Comments

[verbapulchra.livejournal.com]

Oh I love this one. it's perfect. So much contained in 100 words. An entire personality, a whole philosophy, and even commentary on education. The beginning and end are exactly right, and it flies perfectly, too.

You are really getting good at these.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Thank you. You say all the correct things to stroke my ego here. *grins* This story wrote itself. I feel guilty.

Started with the primer words because dog, run, big *shrugs*; it was too perfect. Then it was, 'I am not doing this all in Early English Instruction Manuel 101'. From there it just flowed out of my fingers to 99 words. Adding one more was easy.
*grins* I do love Tools- Word count.

[theotherdibbler.livejournal.com]

Yes! Make learning interesting and fun! Show children that reading doesn't have to be boring and they can use words to create whatever the want!



I had a high school physics teacher who did something similar, he would make up scenarios (whether he got them from s book in the first place I don't know), but he'd put the names or nicknames of class members into the scenario, so it would be something like: Nick is up on the roof throwing eggs at Harro, if Harro is 10m away from the building and the buidling is 20m high, what angle does Nick have to throw the eggs in order to hit him? And we'd all have a good laugh at the imagery and then work out what was essentially a pretty boring maths problem. It made learning a lot more interesting and fun (and that's from someone who likes learning things even when others may find them boring).

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Excellent physics teacher. Admittedly in college they won't coddle the students in their claases but half the work of teaching is tying it into real life so there is a reason to not only learn the concepts but to be able to use them.

I'm glad that this struck a cord for you.