Ants in my Pants

I've recently become a little obsessed with teaching.  I want student teaching to start right now, even though I know I'm not prepared for it, but I am canstantly thinking about how I want to structure my classroom.  I'll admit, I do much lesson planning.  Mainly I think about what I want to incorporate in my classroom to encourage relationships between the students and with myself.  In an English classroom, discussion is very important.  If the students are familiar with each other, they will be more willing to talk.  One thing I am definitely going to do is ask a couple students everyday or maybe just a couple days a week to tell me and the class something about themselves and something they have learned outside of the classroom that week.  It doesn't have to be anything educational, although hopefully they are learning something in school, but it can be a simple observation they have made about life, or some useless trivia information.  

For instance, did you know that the lid of tic tac containers are made to dispense one tic tac at a time???

Or that we have been using ketchup cups entirely incorrectly??

And chinese take out containers unfold into plates???!!!!

Can you tell I like foodbeast.com and useless tips about eating? Food is delicious.

I will also teach them something about myself and something that I have learned outside of the classroom.  I think I will ask the class if there is anyone who would like to share, but no one volunteers I shall put some poor victim on the spot.  But I will remind the class periodically to be prepared and to be thinking of things they want to share with the class.