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Monday, February 6, 2012
Rewards and Challenges
At our school, alumni students return every year toward the end of the fall semester for a special occasion. The occasion is known as Youth Motivation Day where the entire school attends an assembly and listen to the the challenges and rewards that former students have encountered after graduation. The alumni are then broken into groups and rotate to different advisories and share more personal experiences about their college experience and the road they travelled to get there. Counselors at our school have commented that this day is eye opening and sometimes daunting because they have to face the post secondary success and failures of our students. I think that experience above all else is both rewarding and challenging for our counselors.
Melanie, I've not heard of anything like that but after dealing with my "educationally challenged" students I can easily see how this is effective.
ReplyDeleteAs a coach, I always encourage former players to come back during the offseason. I do this for various reasons. They can "sell" a message that I can't because they are still perceived by players as one of them. I can tell the same exact message and it doesn't have near the impact that someone close in their own age can have when they tell of their own new experience.
I can easily see how this same concept would translate to the educational aspect our current students face.