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Post by noreen on Dec 2, 2015 21:27:35 GMT
I want my students to know: I see you, I care, I am here for you, you can count on me. Building a rapport with is a student is critical, students need to know there is someone in there corner.
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Post by noreen on Dec 2, 2015 21:33:52 GMT
Steve-Your description of a student getting a concept that they struggled to get, is exactly why I teach.
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Post by noreen on Dec 2, 2015 21:41:15 GMT
Mary-I pick the same passage. Students do need to know there is more to learning then what is in books. Caring is huge!!!
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Post by butler on Dec 3, 2015 1:31:51 GMT
“It is a paradox of teaching that no two days are alike; yet, if we are not careful, all days can take on a deadening sameness.” This is an important to me because I think teachers can get into a rut and do the same thing day after day in school. They feel this is the best practice and they do the same thing everyday. I know I’m guilty of this to a certain extent. It is important to keep the classroom fresh and have a positive learning environment for all students.
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Post by butler on Dec 3, 2015 1:33:49 GMT
Answer the following questions and respond to two colleagues. 1. What is the most important passage to you in this chapter? Why? Chapter 11 The third paragraph is the most important passage to me: "The ideas presented in this book are ambitious. They also are well within the reach of teachers who seek daily to do what we ought to ask of all students: risk, stretch, and push a bit beyond our comfort zone." This book is overwhelming to me. It is information overload! I need to start slowly, but definitely. One day at a time. I will begin differentiating with one lesson. I think it will be the task I wrote about for the Chapter 6 question. It is true! Every day I am asking my students to take risks. I am asking them to do things they have never done before. I am having them jump right in without a choice. Every teacher is able to differentiate, but it needs to be at their level and their pace. Differentiating needs to be done among the teachers at LPS just as the teachers are being asked to differentiate with their students!! Great points Brenda. Change is scary and sometimes we just have to go for it. |
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Post by butler on Dec 3, 2015 1:35:55 GMT
I want my students to know: I see you, I care, I am here for you, you can count on me. Building a rapport with is a student is critical, students need to know there is someone in there corner. I agree with you. I noticed this being true more with jr. high students compared to lower elementary students. |
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Post by butler on Dec 3, 2015 1:40:49 GMT
"I see you. I care. I am here for you. You can count on me." There is SO much to learn that is not between the covers of books. Let's not ever forget that. Being there and caring eliminates so many day-to-day problems and teaches them skills they will use every day no matter what they choose to do. Great quote! This is also important because we don't always know what the students bring with them to school on a day to day bases. Some students the only people that care about them are their teachers. |
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Post by lori on Dec 3, 2015 4:16:18 GMT
The most important passage to me was "The ideas are well within the reach of teachers who seek daily to do what we ought to ask of all students: risk, stretch, and push a bit beyond our comfort zone." This passage encourages teachers to try new things, take some risks, and see what changes happen to you and your students as you face the challenges together.
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Post by lori on Dec 3, 2015 4:26:43 GMT
Don Nash- Closing thoughts- The classroom is the place where we spend the better part of our lifetimes trying to make a difference. Thankfully, I have thought long and hard enough to believe that I have made a difference. How big a difference is still in the balance. The number of former students that take the time to tell me thanks for caring for them and always believing in them is priceless. I know that caring for them and doing whatever I can to help them in school and life is very important to me but it is not enough. Have I prepared them for the next forty years of their lives? Probably not but I think I have helped them to get on the right track. In the last Final thoughts its says,:Rightly understood, excellent teaching in great measure, leadership of the young. Our greatest fear is not that we are adequate in that role but that we are powerful beyond measure. I take that role very seriously as all teachers should. One former student told me the one thing she loved about me more than anything else is that I treated everyone the same. It did not matter to me what your name was, if your were an athlete or not. I treated everyone the same and I believed in all of them the same. I remember telling student a few years ago, "I have not given up on anyone yet but I'm thinking about it." This usually gets a laugh and then they smile and nod as they know I care and I will do whatever to help them. Many times a student will come home on a weekend and call and ask to help them with a paper on something. I love taking the time to research with them and to discuss things with them. I do not think they would do this if they thought I did not care. The Big picture to me is I have to use a lot more ways and means to teach! The bottom line is I have to make time to do this. For the first time I have confidence in our technology to do more projects here in Lidgerwood. Lori- I ran into a former student who I had in Kindergarten many years ago. She told me she was going to school to be an elementary teacher and she said "I just wanted you to know that you were my inspiration." She moved away from Lidgerwood when she was in elementary school so I barely recognized her but she sought me out while she was here attending graduation for a relative of hers. It made me feel that I had made a difference and it gives a person the extra boost to keep doing what we do even when we feel stressed out. |
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Post by lori on Dec 3, 2015 4:31:55 GMT
"I see you. I care. I am here for you. You can count on me." There is SO much to learn that is not between the covers of books. Let's not ever forget that. Being there and caring eliminates so many day-to-day problems and teaches them skills they will use every day no matter what they choose to do. Lori- What a great quote! I get so many hugs and smiles from my kindergarten students. They may drive me nuts some days but they can count on me to be the best I can be for them. |
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Post by alecia on Dec 3, 2015 5:34:45 GMT
The most important passage in this chapter I believe is the one that says that we have the opportunity to remain stagnate and act as the same teachers as when we began our careers, however we should seek daily to risk, stretch, and push a bit beyond our comfort zone just as we ask our students to do. I agree with this statement because yes, we should be willing to get past our comfort zone just as we ask our students HOWEVER just as it is with some of our students, it is NOT easy for some. Differentiation will expect us to do this and so it is something we or any teacher will just have to take step by step.
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Post by alecia on Dec 3, 2015 5:37:08 GMT
“It is a paradox of teaching that no two days are alike; yet, if we are not careful, all days can take on a deadening sameness.” This is an important to me because I think teachers can get into a rut and do the same thing day after day in school. They feel this is the best practice and they do the same thing everyday. I know I’m guilty of this to a certain extent. It is important to keep the classroom fresh and have a positive learning environment for all students. Yes, a classroom should be fresh and positive environment daily however I would agree with you Butler, we ALL get into a rut and can become guilty of the same old same old. We just have to push ourselves to keep things fresh. |
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Post by alecia on Dec 3, 2015 5:40:51 GMT
I want my students to know: I see you, I care, I am here for you, you can count on me. Building a rapport with is a student is critical, students need to know there is someone in there corner. So true, Noreen! We as educators need to strive to get a repoire with our students and so they know we are there for them if needed. We spend so much time with these youth and they need it to be positive. |
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Post by joel on Dec 3, 2015 23:07:55 GMT
Mary, your list is a good one. There is so much that a teacher does that is never discussed or part of the curriculum when it comes to teaching. We are all teachers and so much more. The list is long when it comes to what we deal with as teachers and the various topics we are unexpectedly supposed to teach.
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Post by joel on Dec 3, 2015 23:18:22 GMT
Jeff, your observation that we are probably using differentiated instruction already is a good one. I honestly believe that is true and we have simply not identified it as such. I am guessing that some of the newer teachers probably covered this before they graduated and older teachers have stumbled across it in their own teaching strategies. We all probably use different degrees of it and maybe some of us have thrown it out and focused on more traditional teaching strategies because they lend themselves more effectively to certain types of curriculum, like Bruce suggests.
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