Breath of fresh air

In the short film Hobart Shakespeareans I really thought it was interesting. Not just how he taught but how much he cared about the students and how he took pride in them. I feel like that ‘caring’ teachers are rare and I think that is why his class was so interesting. He made it fun and understandable. Some literary practices that I found very intriguing, is when he was teaching them guitar. I think that reading music and understanding every note is hard but still rewarding at the same time. Also, I think when they were reading Shakespeare that they really understood the depth of what they were reading. I think “doing” was the literacy focus in this movie. The teacher was not just standing up there and teaching but engaging the students. He is creating a new kind of environment which is constructed around having fun and taking pride in what they are doing. I think that if a student is not fully engaged within a class then they will not take away the literacy knowledge they may or might need.
Rather, we must think consciously (and practically) about how our students’ conceptions of (and contexts for) writing are changing, and we must approach the teaching of grammar in new and innovative ways.
-Twitter Essay, JESSE STOMMEL
I think this quote explains what is happening in Hobart Shakespeareans. They teacher is teaching them in new and innovated ways. I think the teacher in H.S is making things fresh and new which is a breath of fresh air.