This week, I’ve been thinking about education as a long game enterprises, but I realized this morning I’ve thought very little about literal games inside my classroom. This is primarily because I hate games. I despise them. I would never want to sit through them as a student, and I certainly wasn’t going to inflict them on my students.
But this is selfish.
My students aren’t me. My students don’t relate to the books they read like I did. This is not a bad thing. It’s a basic awareness that what works or doesn’t work for me should not exhaust my teaching repertoire.
Games might in fact be a long-game strategy.