Right Now

Right now, it's your tomorrow.
Right now, c'mon, it's everything.
Right now, catch a magic moment, do it right here and now.
It means everything
-Sammy Hagar

School is starting again. New students. New ideas. Blank slate. When do we implement all these new ideas? Do we wait until the students are ready? Do we wait until everyone is on board with the plan? There is not better time to get going on new ideas than at the present moment. Do we want these students to miss anything new that will help them learn and progress? When we find something that might be revolutionary and will help students, we need to get going on it as soon as we can. Get your head around the concept and dig in.

Have students help put together. Use them as the learners they are and find out what they think. Will it help them learn better? Are they willing to try it out? I have found that one reason we don't try it out is because we, the teacher, are unsure how it will work out.

As we learn new ideas from out Personal Learning Network on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, at school, or wherever you hear and see new ideas, get your head around it and get it going.

I remember the first year I used flipped learning. I had been toying with the idea for about a year trying to figure out how I would put it into practice. It took me a year to get it into place and then it was magnificent. Students loved it. I wasted 2 years putting it together and 3 years of students that could have used this idea to learn. The reason was that I wasn't ready. It wasn't the students. We don't give students enough credit when it comes to new activities and procedures. If it is he middle of the year, we start over and teach the new procedures as we did at the beginning of the year.

There are so many activities and lessons and strategies that we can use. Don't wait. Do it right now.