I had been exploring the space in my room and putting the desks in different configurations in order to get a feel for the space. I was out for a while and when I came back one of my fellow staff members mentioned that a parent of one of my future students dropped by and had a negative reaction to the current layout of the room.
I want to explore experiment and try new things. That also means there will be failures. How will the parents of the students in my classroom handle it?
Some of the things I'm going to try will turn out to be bad ideas. Some of them will be good ideas that I implement badly, or that just don't work with this group of students.I want to create a classroom in which experimentation and failure is acceptable. Where it is perfectly fine to stretch yourself, to try hard and miss the mark and then get back up again. Where students will be willing to push themselves to the limit.
The best way to do that is to lead the way and show my students that taking risks and failing is perfectly acceptable.
The question is, can the parents handle it?
