Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom CHAPTER 3

Sometimes when I read things I get inspired, this happened while reading chapter 3. I don’t know how, but I get these insights into my future as a teacher. I literally see myself doing certain things in my classroom. For some reason while reading chapter three I got another insight/ daydream, but I believe they’re more than dreams, they are visions of hope. Like in chapter 3 it states “the very least we ought to expect of ourselves is that we figure out what we hope for in this life” (25)

Sooo….I guess this is my subconscious trying to figure out what I hope for in this life….anyway….In this insight, I saw myself having a morning meeting, in that morning meeting I included an extra element, song. I am a musical person, I believe music can mend a broken heart, excite the mind, and improve the spirit. Anyway, back to my insight, I saw myself doing the morning meeting, and in it we are doing a song, and it is a song that we’ll learn piece by piece everyday. Anyway, I saw that we were learning a song and that song was “We are Family” by the Pointer Sisters. I can just see my class dancing to the song, and we are all feeling great because as a class we are more than just a community we are a family. This song is awesome because it just lightens the spirit and the last verse of the song is wonderful and sums up exactly what I want my students to know and how I feel about them and how I want to live too, because that was also expressed in the chapter, to live what you believe...so this is a part of what I believe now:

That life is fun and they’re future (the students) has just begun, have high hopes for the future, keep the goal insight, don’t get depressed because we just need to have “faith in you and the things you do”. I would love it if my students made this self realization, I already believe it and I can’t wait to share this message with them.

Pointer Sisters - We are family Lyrics
CHORUS
We are family. I got all my sisters with me. We are family. Get up everybody and sing.
We are family. I got all my sisters with me. We are family. Get up everybody and sing.

Everyone can see we're together. As we walk on by, And we fly just like birds of a feather. I'm not telling no lie. All of the people around us to say, Can we be that close? Just let me state for the record We're giving love in a family dose, yeah

CHORUS

Living life is fun and we've just begun. To get our share of the world's delights
High hopes we have for the future.
And our goal's in sight. No we don't get depressed. Here's what we call our golden rule: Have faith in you and the things you do. You won't go wrong, oh no. This is our family Jewel, yeah!

CHORUS (REPEAT FOUR TIMES)

P.S. I'm sorry Dr. Peterson, this is probably what you weren’t looking for in a blog/chapter summary, but I couldn’t help but write out what I was thinking and envisioning play out as I read the chapter. I felt like I was going to burst. Crazy huh?