June 16th, 2019 

Hey there,
How are you doing? I was reading this article from CBC titled: “Fidgety and frustrated: How hopping in the hallways is helping in the classroom,” published on May 12th, 2019.

Just in case the article is not available anymore, here’s a summary: basically, the children who are too fidgety or frustrated are invited to leave the classroom to cool off. In order to cool off, they get to walk through corridors different ways, according to what’s on the floor: hopping, walking like a crab, etc. Students give testimonies about how they are perfectly fine by the time they go back to their classroom, because by that time, they don’t remember what had triggered them.

I’m very interested in how these work, and once I have my own classroom, I would totally want to try it out! I feel like, as an adult myself, I feel very fidgety after a few hours of sitting down and taking notes or listening to a teacher ramble on and on. I guess that’s why, at the University level, we’re expected to know enough about ourselves and our needs to get up and leave for a walk or for the washroom without having to ask permission.

At their young age, students don’t always know and sometimes, they abuse the system in order to go outside and do who-knows-what? The article doesn’t talk about what the teachers implemented to let the students know not the abuse it? I’m not sure, but I think with good rules, the students ideally wouldn’t go overboard too much?

At any rate, I hope that was somewhat helpful!
Have a great day today!
See you all later!