Week 2 - Life Skills in the Gym

My spring break plans changed so I decided to go in for my normal session on Tuesdays. That day Mr. Gunderson and the other Geography teacher were doing a joint lesson in the gym. The lesson was based on three different team building activities. The reason the two teachers decided to do the activities is that it was the beginning of a new quarter and students had just been shuffled around, so they did not all know their new classmates.

I had fun helping with the activities and most of the students seemed to have enjoyed themselves. I was impressed that when explaining the purpose of the lesson, Mr Gunderson chose to speak about the most valued skills in the Fortune 500 companies and that the activities would allow the students to develop such skills. He really treats them like mature people but withdraws this privilege or threatens to withdraw it when they misbehave. It is a unique method of class management.

I am going in again tomorrow. It's pretty tiring to go in for a straight 5 hours so I'll probably be a bit sleepy when I get to class. Oh and it was great that though I hadn't gone in for a week or two, the kids who I had worked with remembered me. I was a lot more comfortable but it could have been because we were playing games.