C4T Comments for Teachers #2

For the past month I have been following Tom Hobson's also known as Teacher Tom blog posts. Mr. Hobson is a pre-school teacher who was against small areas for small children. I also is against that small children should be taught in a small environment. It gives them no room to grow or be a child. His first post was The Best Of All Possible Worlds. In summary, this post was about a teacher who never lost the site of teaching no matter how small his classroom space was. Like many other classes Teacher Tom's class was moved into the gym where the little ones were able to move about and do fun activities. Teacher Tom mentions that his class has the best of all possible worlds because they can now run around, build block structures, and do gutter activities without knocking or hurting anyone else. For instants, his student Violet was building blocks and accidentally knocked them over, instead of hearing a cry Hobson heard her tell him that it was okay because she could rebuild it.

Hobson's second post was titled Soon It Was Someone Else's Turn. In this post he talks about how children are sneaky but cute. In his class he has a hamster wheel where his students (yes, 3-5 years old kids) are learning how centrifugal force is being used. Connor, one of his students, claims the wheel as his own and would not let any of the other students play with it. During the next class time Connor saw Gray, his classmate, playing with the wheel and instantly went charging for it. Like any other adult would do, Teacher Tom told Connor he would have to wait until his turn. Like any other 3 year old Connor didn't like that decision, so he waited beside Gray. While both boys helped each other with the task of keeping the car rolling on the hamster will, Hobson praises them a little to quickly. After hearing Hobson say "Connor helped Gray by holding the base so it wouldn't fall over," both boys pulled but Gray was quicker. Getting impatient Connor left to find better things to do. When told by Hobson that it was now his turn to play with the wheel, Connor no longer wanted to play with the wheel.

Reading Tom Hobson's posts while looking at the pictures let me know instantly that I was finally in my right major. I can not wait to become a teacher so I can watch and observe the little ones.