What I learned about myself as a teacher this week, is that our students can see and tell us things about ourselves that we might not see. If we take heed to some of the things they say, we might just grow. This week my 4th period Salon II class, have had a couple of issues. I had decided that I was going to limit their lab days to one day, instead of the 3-4 days, because of some behavior problems. Well, over the weekend, I thought about the situation. How it really wouldn't be right to punish a whole class for a couple of students.

So Monday we had a talk as a class with the activity "Chalk Talk". I ask them how do they feel as a class things that we can do to take care of the problems that we are having. I was amazed at some of the things that the students were coming up with. They even had some things that made me look at myself. Things that I had to admit to, like maybe showing favortism of certain students. Once it was all over, we played "random acts of kindness", and the class was very productive. I lefted the words on the board so that they could reflect on them, and kept them on the board the next day as well. Our lab experience really was better the next day. Everybody was on board and I believe they appreciated being in the lab more, and put forth more of an effect to have and peaceful experience.