I agree with you. I learned the art of blather from a teacher for whom I was an assistant. She would tell the class: "You are in your seats, you are not talking, you are working on your warm-ups." Ben Newmark would say "They know this." Maybe they do but they need to be reminded (particularly 8 yr students) of what it is they should be doing.
Now, interrupting them when they're doing problems/homework in class is something else. It's distracting so I agree there.
Thanks for that. I suppose the big question is whether classes can be trained not to need all those reminders, but even if they can be, it probably takes more than one subject teacher to do that.
I agree with you. I learned the art of blather from a teacher for whom I was an assistant. She would tell the class: "You are in your seats, you are not talking, you are working on your warm-ups." Ben Newmark would say "They know this." Maybe they do but they need to be reminded (particularly 8 yr students) of what it is they should be doing.
Now, interrupting them when they're doing problems/homework in class is something else. It's distracting so I agree there.
Thanks for that. I suppose the big question is whether classes can be trained not to need all those reminders, but even if they can be, it probably takes more than one subject teacher to do that.