Detoxifying Our Teaching

Do you suffer from:

• Sleepless nights
• Brain fog
• Muscle aches
• Headaches
• Excessive sinus problems

If you found yourself making mental checkmarks to the list above, it may be time for you to detoxify your body.

Feeling as though I needed to revamp my morning routine for Spring, I jumped at the chance to attend a detox workshop this past Saturday at Avani Spa.  As I was listening to our instructor discuss the best foods to detox the body, I couldn’t help but think about ways we might detoxify our teaching as well:

• Stop teaching content in isolation and start using questions to help students elaborate on content
• Post and refer to a standards-based learning target everyday.
• Use more visuals.
• Stop using rows and begin organizing students to interact with content.

So if you are looking to detoxify your body or your teaching, here are some additional resources you may find beneficial:  

Body Detox	Teaching Detox
10 Ways to Detoxify Your Body	5 Common Teaching Practices I’m Kicking To The Curb
28 Signs You Need to Detox Your Body Immediately	10 Faulty Teaching Strategies to Avoid