Listening and Learning: The Joys of Teaching
It was a beautiful fall day in Houston, Texas… one of those rare days that is just the right temperature — a day with little humidity, a light breeze, and cloudless. As part of a Department of Education grant, I was excited to spend my entire day with six classes of first graders and their teachers, modeling and sharing mathematics activities. As I opened the front door of Martin Elementary School, I was greeted by two first graders who ran down the hallway shouting, “The great BIG teacher is here.