Wow, I think the sentence “turning the stagnant into the brilliant “ says it all. That for me is a pedagogy of magic.
Your piece made me think of Ms Paty, my 9th grade language arts teacher. We read the odyssey by seating in a circle and listening to the text being recited. The classroom transformed for those 50 minutes, and I felt that my understanding of the Odyssey was deeper because of that.
Your story reminds me that creating "magical moments" in the classroom doesn't need to be complicated. As simple sometimes as reading a story out loud. And certainly for The Odyssey that was orally shared and passed down through generations before it was ever written.
Wow, I think the sentence “turning the stagnant into the brilliant “ says it all. That for me is a pedagogy of magic.
Your piece made me think of Ms Paty, my 9th grade language arts teacher. We read the odyssey by seating in a circle and listening to the text being recited. The classroom transformed for those 50 minutes, and I felt that my understanding of the Odyssey was deeper because of that.
Your story reminds me that creating "magical moments" in the classroom doesn't need to be complicated. As simple sometimes as reading a story out loud. And certainly for The Odyssey that was orally shared and passed down through generations before it was ever written.