Test Crushing Other World

This is a week off from teaching at the school.  As of yet, I'm not missing it.  A peer asked me to substitute teach for some of her private students, a group class and a chamber ensemble, and I gladly took the opportunity, also because they are cutting our hours of teaching in the coming weeks and I need the additional income.  It is freeing to have control of my own teaching voice again.  It is freeing to be able to focus on one person, to give them all my attention.  I wonder what it will be like to return to the classroom.  It is testing season and so I will see the scholars less frequently as they prepare to crush the state tests.  What is of value?  How do you teach it?