A Little Treat for Myself
By: Curtis Kelly
We always tell our students about ourselves, but how many times do they get to do the same to us? In my classes, every time, even in my big 60-student classes! How? By using a brilliant idea I learned from the great Professor Hiroyoshi Harakawa: communicards.
At the end of class, I passed out easily prepared, copied, and cut slips of paper like these, and told students to write something about themselves they might like to tell me. It didn’t have to be about class. Then I’d collect them and savor each on my train journey home.
I always learned things I never expected, about boyfriends, birthdays, and desires for our classes, and I think that made me a better teacher.
