For me, a table was a communal and shared space, the desk a teacher space (one poorly used). It was just this island of junk. I felt compelled to clean the communal space and prone to ignore the junk pile in teacher space.
Lori Jackson M.Ed.Reading Specialist Broken Bow, NE EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > From: lstew...@branford.k12.ct.us > To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:48:43 -0400 > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] teacher desk or no? > > I have a VERY small classroom with a relatively extensive library and a > large, old oak "teacher" desk that gets piled with everything and is never > used as the work space I envision it to be at the start of the year. Each > year I consider changing it out for a table but then I think that the table > will get covered with the same pile of unfiled papers, etc. so what would I > accomplish. I do let my students sit at "my" desk which they initially get a > kick out of. > > For those of you who changed out to a table (and I am not a kidney-shape > table person either. I meet for reading sitting on the floor.) how/why was > the table an improvement over the desk? > > Leslie Grade 3 Teacher > lstew...@branford.k12.ct.us > 203-481-5386, 203-483-0749 FAX > > To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, > ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. > ~ Gaston Bachelard ~ > ________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
