Just read a blog in Edutopia about classroom strategies for elementary teachers. It deals with pencil sharpening, sending students to the bathroom or nurse, when to provide a bandaid, vomiting issues, and all those other issues they don’t teach you in Teacher Ed classes. While I agree with many of her ideas, some of mine vary a little. Take for example, a paper cut… there’s no blood, but it hurts like heck. Her theory: no blood, no bandaid. My theory, give them a bandaid. It helps to take their mind off of their pain and then they can focus on their work. Otherwise, they sit at their desk squeezing their paper cut while making anguishing faces, totally not focused on what you are saying. Seriously, what’s the bandaid going to cost you? It was pretty entertaining. Here’s a link if you would like to read it: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/classroom-management-strategies-elementary-teacher?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
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