encourage committees or strategic planning teams to make the best decisions possible for our schools, governments, businesses, and just about anything that matters to us; yet we don't do this with our young people?
How many of our students still sit in rows of desks, turn in their own assignments, and typically work alone on everything that they do? I would assume most of the classrooms that you see look exactly like this no matter if it was your classroom 50 years ago or your own child's or hell grandchild's for that matter. Why isn't anyone questioning this? Is this how us function in the "real-world" as adults? How many of you go into your line of work and think to yourself, "Geez I am so damn excited to sit in a desk that I don't really fit in, in a row, for at least 7 hours?" Doesn't that just get you all fired up to do your best? Hahahaha...I know the answer to that one!
We wonder why the drop out rate is increasing, students are bored, and my biggest fear is when I continue to hear our brightest and most successful kids say, "I HATE SCHOOL"!!!! I want to pretend to be shocked, but honestly I'm not. How would you like to be a student? I feel like it would pretty much suck!
Think about this...
When you are at "work" and you forget to do something, or you have a sick child and need to leave, or whatever else may come up, how many of your co-works say, "Go, we've got this" This environment is built on respect, support, and professionalism ideally, but we all know that it happens. We work together as a TEAM to help each other out. You sometimes pick up the slack when you need to, knowing that you've got each other's back!!!!
But, if a student forgets an assignment, is taking care of his/her elderly grandparent, doesn't have electricity, is homeless, or whatever else might come up, do we work with them the same way? Do we have their back? Some teachers do, and I love and admire them for the relationships that they build, but some DON'T. If it is late, it is late, and YOU get a ZERO!!!!! Isn't that inspiring for a student to hear.
I just feel that it is imperative to teach our young people how to work together as a team. That is why I support extra-curricular activities and coaches so much. You WIN as a TEAM and you LOSE as a TEAM. That is a HUGE message and life lesson for our young people to develop while in their crucial years of development.
Trust me, I understand that we can't work together on everything and we must focus on the best YOU that YOU can be, but I think that we need to at least consider it, think about it, and model it for our young people.
It takes a village...
Happy Sunday Folk,
Leigh xoxo
We wonder why the drop out rate is increasing, students are bored, and my biggest fear is when I continue to hear our brightest and most successful kids say, "I HATE SCHOOL"!!!! I want to pretend to be shocked, but honestly I'm not. How would you like to be a student? I feel like it would pretty much suck!
Think about this...
When you are at "work" and you forget to do something, or you have a sick child and need to leave, or whatever else may come up, how many of your co-works say, "Go, we've got this" This environment is built on respect, support, and professionalism ideally, but we all know that it happens. We work together as a TEAM to help each other out. You sometimes pick up the slack when you need to, knowing that you've got each other's back!!!!
But, if a student forgets an assignment, is taking care of his/her elderly grandparent, doesn't have electricity, is homeless, or whatever else might come up, do we work with them the same way? Do we have their back? Some teachers do, and I love and admire them for the relationships that they build, but some DON'T. If it is late, it is late, and YOU get a ZERO!!!!! Isn't that inspiring for a student to hear.I just feel that it is imperative to teach our young people how to work together as a team. That is why I support extra-curricular activities and coaches so much. You WIN as a TEAM and you LOSE as a TEAM. That is a HUGE message and life lesson for our young people to develop while in their crucial years of development.
Trust me, I understand that we can't work together on everything and we must focus on the best YOU that YOU can be, but I think that we need to at least consider it, think about it, and model it for our young people.
It takes a village...
Happy Sunday Folk,
Leigh xoxo
