So I get a message from Jordan's teacher yesterday.
She's been doodling a lot in class. Even when the teacher is teaching.
She's always been a doodler. She draws everywhere. Any time she gets her hands on scraps of paper, she'll doodle.
Sometimes, the doodling is effective because it helps her understand concepts better. Sometimes, it's just doodling for doodling sake.
Just a quick glance at her things all over the house, I found a variety of different sorts of doodles on everything from scrap paper to school test papers.
Hence, an annoyed school teacher.
To be fair, if I were the teacher, I'd be annoyed too since it's easy to assume that the child isn't paying attention when there is doodling. My own students do it as well.
Admirably, she admitted openly to the teacher that she doodles when she is bored (they've been going through exam paper after exam paper) and when she finds things hard to understand (that's how she unpacks things).
I also try and suggest to the teacher that instead of fully banning her from doing it and understanding that this is something that she does to process and to decompress, why not let her doodle as a form of note taking. To channel it into something the teacher can accept.
She seems to be open to that idea and I'm grateful.
Then, in the evening, I read about Nike's Chief of Design and how he doodles. All. The. Time. Part of me wants to send that article on to the teacher but the other part of me knows that's just being snarky. But it would be cool if her doodling allowed her to become chief of design, somewhere.
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