Classroom Curve Balls (Or the Proper Care and Feeding of Lesson Plans)
Adapt or perish. H.G. Wells was talking about evolution when he coined that, but it can as easily be applied to teaching artistry. It’s one of the things the first half of my classroom apprenticeship in 6th Grade at IS 126 in Queens has made crystal clear to me. When selecting our choices of classes, TAP trainees don’t really know anything about the class beyond the time, location, and TA artistic fields. But, of course, being that the New York City public school system is th