Team Building @ URI

I recently did a team building workshop with Mr. Dewar, Ms. Borini, and 40+ Norton students and athletes. What an experience I had! If this was fun for me, I can only imagine how much fun it was for them! I know I already have many kinesthetic activites in my class to get content across, but students are SO much more involved if they are active in some way. I took away that I need to do even more with movement and learning. I also made it a goal that day to learn everyone's name who I did not know and acheived that goal.

Mr. Dewar is right about taking lessons from the day and applying them to real life. I learned that I can work on my patience. I also learned that sometimes you have to step back and let others lead. I am so forward to go after the goal and start giving orders and delegating that I forget to give others a choice. I even had to not talk at all during one of the exercises (as prescribed by the councelor). The 50 foot rock tower was also a fun "little" add-on at the end. I was so very impressed that every student at least tried it. I was even more impressed at two students who said they were not going near that wall initially ended up scaling it faster than everyone else.

I felt like a kid again out there. As I was leaving the school one of my students said, "Mr. T you are so immature!" I responded to her "What else is there to be?" We have to do things in life like learn, work, etc., so why not have fun doing it. I guess I don't ever want to grow up! I think I'm in the right profession. :o)