The school day can be challenging at the best of times: hours spent sitting in one place, learning difficult lessons about things you often don’t even understand. It’s only natural that our kids have a tendency to let their minds wander, particularly when it comes to the tougher subjects, like maths.
Faced with a class of fidgeting students, North Carolina teacher Bethany Lambeth decided to take action – and came up with an amazing way of channelling their pent-up energy in a positive way: through cycling!
Bethany’s 8th grade maths class have been making headlines online this week, after word of the students’ desk cycles went public.
Each student has been given a cycling machine to use under their desk while they work, as a way of helping them to channel energy that would otherwise lead to distractions.
The project is working out extremely well, as Bethany explained to a local media outlet.
“Before, they were drumming on their desks, they were touching other people – they don’t do that anymore. Their feet are getting the movement out. There has been a huge increase in the quality of our students’ work and a decrease in the amount of missing work,” she explained.
Each desk cycle costs $150 (around €134), with the total fee given to the school by a private donor.
Would you like to see something like this introduced in your child’s school?
