My research topic is about "Brain Breaks." Brain breaks are small breaks in instruction to reenergize the students and help get their bodies a break and more focused. I'm focusing on using exercises during this brain break to refocus and reenergize my students. I had been working on my research for about 2 hours straight when I realized that I needed to take my own advice. So I quit my research so that I could work out for 40 minutes. Since then I've been taking a break from my work about ever 15 to 20 minutes to stretch and get my blood pumping. Try it! I've been able to focus more intently for those 15 minutes. I love my research!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Meet Me in the Middle
The title of this post has significant meaning. The first meaning is that we've officially hit the halfway point of our first session of Cadre. Wow! That's hard to believe...but very exciting. Meet Me in the Middle is also a book by Rick Wormeli. It's a book specifically geared towards middle school teachers. It's a great book to learn about my middle school students and fantastic strategies to reach out and make my instruction engaging, effective, and meaningful. I strongly recommend this book to any middle school teacher. I've read it twice and I still found new "aha" information! I love this book and I'm a huge fan of Rick Wormeli.
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I've written less than a page of my paper and I only have one "good" paragraph! I need a brain break...but I fear that if I break from my paper....I won't come back to it!
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