Daydreaming is one of the most underrated exercises you can carry out in your life. We are so busy with the order of our day that we don't give ourselves the time to just simply drift away. Its seen as a weakness by many affecting the productivity of us and impacting negatively on all we do or aim to do. Its seen that our switching off from the world will somehow destroy companies and impact a global market!
Yet we expect students to be creative and think outside of the box. We through around phrases like 'blue sky thinking' yet we never let them or ourselves get into a position where we can see the sky let alone know its blue!
The ability to daydream is not one I have had a problem with - in fact many would argue I am a master at it, but it is a skill which has allowed me to create some of my most pleasing lessons, a learning plan for independent learning and countless resources which have benefited students and other teachers.
So within my classroom I believe in daydreaming. Students need a chance to take stock of what you have told them and to chew over the ideas you are delivering to them at that point in time. We so often immediately hit them with a set of questions and take the focus off the potential that could be achieved if we just let them go and dream and put it straight onto our necessity for them to complete tasks 1 to 5...hmmm.
Who's to say that the child looking out the window isn't designing some new way of feeding the world or wondering what life really was like in the tranches in WW1?
Let them dream...the world will take the chance to do this all too quickly...
