The other day, I was so excited. I had an awesome activity planned. Students were going to be moving around and wholly engaged. This was going to be the best lesson ever. Except it wasn't. Why is it that teenagers can suck the fun out of everything? Here I was putting all of this creativity and work into this activity, and several of them would have been perfectly content just taking notes instead.

The more I reflect on the activity I created, the more apparent my faux pas. I, as many of us do, tend to think that all students feel like me. That we all have the same likes and dislikes, the same learning styles, but that just simply isn't true. Learning styles vary from student to student, and as much as I enjoy getting up, running around, and interacting with others, some of my students not only dread those activities, but they don't even learn in that environment.