Change the mood

The first day that we worked on our lesson our group was low energy and not a lot of positivity or excitement was going around. We weren't receiving any inspiration and we were all a little worried about it. 

Today was completely different. It started with food. Aubria brought chocolate covered almonds to share with everyone and immediately everyone was more happy and energetic. Then with a more open environment we were able to discuss the option of starting fresh with a new idea. Within 5 minutes we were further on the new idea then we were after 3 hours the first day.  The group was feeling excited and comfortable and new ideas were flowing right out. 

It is amazing the power our minds have to impact every moment.
In teaching and in our lives we need to find ways to improve the mood.
to connect with people to make them feel loved important interesting interested or just share your food. I should start bringing more oranges around with me. 

Active Learning

We were working in groups in class today and Geoff moved around to each group and sat at the table with us and worked on grading. He made himself available to us but left it up to us to engage him and get his feedback if we wanted.

I liked this method because it activated me in my learning I was thinking wow he is just going to sit here and if we don't say anything to him we will leave and not help us. 

I think I would try to use some of these methods by making a lot of resources available to the students but leaving it up to them to use them so they feel a motivation.