I was going to do a more serious type of blog but I can't make my words work. I guess I need to get that fixed in the next week and a half! Here is something a bit more light hearted until my hands can make sense of my thoughts.
I have always hated the question, "What would you be if you weren't a __________?" I have always wanted to be a teacher. As stressful and time consuming as it is, it is all that I have ever thought about or known. However, I have discovered something that I would like to do if the teaching thing ever fell through.
Lately, I have grown an intense interest in the brain. How does it work? What makes people act and react the way that they do? What is stimulating to the brain? What affects it and how so? How does the brain respond to aesthetics around us? How does our diet affect our brains? How can we best activate and expand our minds? Why are different people wired different ways? Really light stuff, right!? I noticed this interest when I read The Female Brain this summer. I couldn't put it down. It was SO interesting to see how finely tuned we are and how our minds can be affected by the slightest things. AMAZING! Then, in a workshop last week, we had some bilingual teachers in our group. The presenter asked which language they dream in: English or Spanish? My attention was caught and they said they couldn't remember. She shared resent research that is finding that that the mind dreams and thinks in pictures. She went into what this means for our students. I couldn't help but notice some people bored out of their minds but I was so caught up in the discussion.
So...if I weren't a teacher, I think that I would be a brain researcher. I don't have any background for any kind of masters in that but I'm may look into educational psychology or something along those lines. I don't know. It may stay an interest that I read about and then get my masters in library sciences. I could be Marion the Librarian who happens to read about brains.
What a weirdo!
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Do you know the book, "My Great Aunt Arizona?" You can be her; following your passion (hers was traveling to foreign lands for those who don't know) and then using that to broaden the lives of your students!! I'm sure those 1st graders will love to learn all about their brains!!
You ARE a teacher.
and to add to what your mom said, you can use a jello mold and make a brain that they can eat. one of my professors did that when i was at school. it was 1st as a prank to another professor but then she used in in A&P class to help point out where things are located. none of us ate it but 1st grade boys might like it!!
what a great blog! i have noo idea what i would be, but it would have to do with kids for sure, i don't think i can be away from any (that may change though when i have my own:))
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