Hello internet! My name's Conley Desmond, and starting tomorrow, I'll be teaching first grade at my local grade school. It's my first actual teaching job since getting my degree, so I'm pretty excited about it!
I have some ideas on what I want to do, too. There's been a flu going around, in town, and the Principal has said that I need to give the kids a course on communicable disease. I've been thinking about the best way for me to teach it to the kids, and I think I've found a way. You've probably figured out how by the title of this blog.
I'm going to follow the spread of cooties in a classroom. I was thinking of using the "Cootie Monster", something that, I've been told, is a local variation on the Cootie "myth" and having it arbitrarily "infect" one of the classmates, which is a little less cruel than the usual method.
Hopefully, this'll put disease in a framework they understand. I mean, I know kids aren't dumb, but, sometimes it helps to put things in terms of childhood superstition.
Wow, I'm starting to sound like some of my more condescending professors. Alright, that's probably a sign that this entry's coming to a close. I'll be in with a first-day progress report tomorrow.
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