I find all these visitors very distracting. (Not in a bad way though) I have found that I can’t focus on the task of writing this morning. I find myself wondering about all these new people. Who are they? What is their story? They are currently much more fascinating than what I was going to write about this morning.
I wonder if this is how my students feel when new people are in the classroom, simply observing. I wonder if they act different because “new” is distracting and they too are wondering about the person they know nothing about.
Everyone else seems to be going about, business as usual. Maybe I need to just snap out of it…..
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I’ve totally seen students act differently when new people are in the classroom. Mostly I’ve seen this in positive ways. I took my journalism class (seniors and juniors in high school) to the middle school in the spring and we recorded and took pictures of their classroom science projects. Jane Cramer, their science teacher, commented how some students who never work started working for the camera and pictures. It was pretty neat. Its funny because I was wondering about them too, but I didn’t know anyone so I kind of let them slide beneath my conscious level, where as you didn’t know them and it intrigued you. Interesting…