Life in Education

I think we have exciting times ahead of us in the age of technology. Let's just hope they don't try to replace us with MacBooks and DVD's . Oh wait, they already did .

Today I subbed in an 8th grade English class at Royal Oak Middle School. It was a very different experience from what I've grown accustomed to at Ann Arbor Open, as well as having my own Spanish classes at Northwood Elementary. As the bell rang, kids quietly filed in, took their chairs down, and began to read, EXACTLY as was noted in the lesson plans the teacher had left for me. After 20 minutes, they got out their notebooks, and composed letters to elementary school students about why reading is fun and important; again, as noted in said lesson plans. All of this was happening while I, the substitute teacher - whom most teachers must assume are, shall we say, less than capable of running a functional classroom - had nothing better to do than read from "The Giver," which was what I'd be reading with the next four classes. Upon witnessing these students drone though what had the potential to be an enlightening experience, I found this teacher's selection of no...