“Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn’t mean mattered.” – Seth Godin
Teachers are busy people. Students are told to "get busy", focus, get their work done. Busy is not bad. Busy is good. Busy gives us practice, it increases our productivity, it can make us smarter…if what we are busy at matters!
In the readers workshop, every minute matters to readers and writers. Every minute we spend together, with other readers, and by ourselves is spent thinking about, working on, getting more efficient and confident at BEING A GREAT READER and THINKER!
There is no school or classroom (that I am currently aware of) that will be receiving a grant or creating a new law that gives them more time to do less work. So every minute we have with students must matter. Stay busy. Keep students busy. Embrace busy. Just think very carefully about these questions, consider and reconsider:
- What are our students busy at?
- What kinds of content, materials, experiences fill their day?
- Does that kind of busy help them develop into the reader/writer/thinker/human being you wish them to be?
- Are they busy doing all that they are capable of doing..if they had time to practice and the support to succeed at it?
BUSY MATTERS, BUT THE WORK MATTERS MORE!
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