Hey Everyone,
Happy Sunday. The videos were valuable to me in that they showed me a new perspective of viewing people and interacting with them. Regardless of whether "special" ed or "regular" ed, I think this mindset should be applied always when dealing with students. How many times have we witnessed kids taking chips away from each other? Or a teacher taking away from a student? Or as hard it may be to admit...how many times have we taken away chips? The videos presented situations in a Hit Home kind of manner and I actually have put his thinking into application. I try my best to be positive always and to build people up even though I have my moments of jokes and sarcasm. I guess long story short, you never really know what people are going through..what happened that morning, the night before, right before they entered your class even - so we should be mindful knowing we can make an impact and be in a position to give back those chips instead of taking them away.
50,000 chips to you all.
David
David,
ReplyDeleteYour perspective on how we should deal with students is interesting. Trying to keep all the chips in the game can be very difficult especially when dealing with learning disabled students. Trying to treat everyone the same in order to keep all the chips is more difficult. Making sure you do not take chips away can be more difficult than giving chips out. What you say has merit and striving to make this happen would be a great thing. In reality, we are human and we all make mistakes. Losing chips in the big game seems to be easier than earning them. Being the person and professional you are makes giving chips out a natural occurrence and have advantages.
Mark