How am I going to handle being a teacher on this day every year? I can only imagine the silly things that middle school and high school students might try to pull. I remember some of the stuff that happened in my high school:
- Deer urine in the stairwells
- Fish in the swimming pool
- Fish in the bathrooms
- Chickens labeled "one," "two," and "four"
Maybe the students just need an outlet to "celebrate"? Start the day by providing the following promt: "What is the best joke you have ever played?" or "What is the importance/lack of importance of April Fool's Day?" or "why do people feel the need to play jokes?" I mean, there are a variety of routes that you can take to be proactive. Many times students just might want to talk about the day for the sake of talking about it. And giving them a space to do that might keep them from pulling pranks.
ReplyDeleteOr, beat them to it by playing a joke on them...a friendly joke of course! I think there are ways in which April Fools Day could be made proactive; the problem is when teachers try to avoid or ignore the life of middle/high schools students making them feel unimportant or disrespected thus sometimes causing a rebellion in the form of a joke against the teacher. Just a thought!
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