I didn’t plan it, I promise!

Yesterday afternoon I was teaching my child development class like I do every Thursday (it’s the class we do belly dancing in). It’s a class for future elementary teachers and this semester they’ve started having cohorts of students who take all of their classes together and take them all out in an elementary school. It’s how I learned to teach, so I’m a little biased and think it’s a great way to become a teacher.

One of the topics yesterday was classroom management. I started by pointing out several reasons why classroom management can be difficult. The last reason I mentioned was all the interruptions that happen in classes in this country, particularly with the intercom going off several times during the day (other countries thinking teaching is sacred and should not be interrupted). Right at that moment, the school intercom came on. It was perfect! And it wasn’t even planned! A little while later it came on again and they needed someone to go to classroom 15 1/2. Several of us immediately thought of platform 9 3/4. It was nice that the school so readily proved my point about the interruptions.