Who Knew?!?

I have the best job in the world...

I incorporated a oversized, 1989 NKOTB (New Kids on The Block for those of you born after 1988) button and NKOTB music in a French vocabulary review game today! How, you may wonder (or you may be wondering if your tax dollars are being well spent). The button (I know the true fans are humming "Tonight" as I describe the buttons...The buttons, and the pins, and the loud fanfare....la la la la...Oh! I digress) was the "hot potato" or potate chaude as we French say. The students had to pass la potate chaude while NKOTB music played. When the music stopped, who ever had the button had to tell me a French word from the chapter we are reviewing. Fun, fun, fun! High schoolers think it's funny that their teacher is such a Blockhead (again, if you were born after 1988 this expression has no meaning).

Being able to incorporate a little part of who I am into the classroom is important to me because I want young people to realize thier teachers are simply people who used to be their age, too! Creating an evironment that's "real" is important to me as an educator! Typically, students respond very positively if you simply be yourself in the classroom...it's a true balance of keeping true to your person and still maintaining classroom mangagement.