My first week in the Orchard Garden was quite different from the traditional classroom setting. While, initially, I would not say I liked coming outside for class, I have grown to enjoy it. The change of pace from sitting in lectures to standing and exploring the garden is quite an exciting co-teacher. Learning new ways to teach math has made me so excited as I want to change my math classes from sitting in a classroom and listening to me lecture all day to one with some added variation by taking my class outside and learning some math. Similar to how we calculated the angle of the sun using our hands. Learning math this way will help reinforce specific things with students as some hands-on activities go a long way than the usual lecture and homework routine.
While this is an ideal I want to strive for in my classroom, I also have to be realistic. While I was working at Science World, a co-worker used to be a high school teacher but quit due to conflicting views with the administrators. He explained that administrators might be the bane of exciting new teaching concepts as he constantly had to fight against administrators who tried to keep his class shacked in the classroom instead of letting his biology class take walks around green spaces to explore different local ecosystems around the school. He told me that while some administrators might encourage these new and different approaches to teaching, some have a traditional mindset where classes must only happen in the classroom and nowhere else. Considering this story, I still plan to develop more unique classroom experiences instead of traditional ones where students always sit at a desk listening to me speak.
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