What do you love the most about teaching?
I was just thinking about this today, even before I saw today's prompt. We did a staggered start of our students this year, and today was the first day I had all of my students, freshmen through seniors, in classes. I had my classes working - tackling the Marshmallow Challenge, collecting Bouncing Ball data, getting to know each other while collaborating and doing STUFF. I loved listening to them navigate the tasks, watching the students who instantly started talking and planning, and those who hung back and took it all in. We talked about risk taking and making mistakes and trying again.
It was a great day.
So what do I love most about teaching? Getting to spend my day with young people, encouraging them to learn how to collaborate with others to accomplish more than they could on their own. Hopefully they walk away knowing some science too ;) But honestly, I think these kids are awesome humans who, even on their angsty days, are pretty cool to be around.
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