What Would You Do Scenario
My real-life “What Would You Do” scenario happened about two weeks ago in my classroom at Burncoat High School: my teacher abruptly left the room to answer a phone call, came back to class, and asked me if I could handle teaching the second period Honors English class. Another student teacher and myself said we could manage it. Our Supervising Teacher left to pick up his kids — his car broke down — and the students began filing into their seats. I hadn’t read this week’s novel, Things Fall Apart, in about six years, but I remembered enough to facilitate a circle read and a discussion about theme. I almost panicked — here were 26 students in the classroom, waiting for class to begin. It was an emergency situation and certainly was anxiety-producing at first. I learned to stay calm, no matter what.
What a great way to start to know what you are capable of doing. What is nice is that students will often rise to the occasion when someone they trust is trying something.
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