What surprised me most this week is that I was able to reach my students on a higher level just by trying something new. This week I used Edmodo to issues several Polls to my students. The students were instructed to read each Poll and choose the answer they felt was the best for the given scenario. (We have been covering Work Ethics in class this week so it has been an interesting three days that is for sure.) I told them that no answer was wrong and that everyone was entitled to their opinions on a Poll.

The surprise came when not a single student chose a negative response to the ethics question! For some reason I thought for sure that my trouble-makers would be the ones to choose the negative ethics response, and yet they all chose either the most favorable, or second to most favorable. I know when I was in school I was “that” student that easily would have chosen the “morally wrong” answer just because I could.

While I know this will, more than likely not happen again; it is a comforting and truly surprising thought that my students actually made the right decision. Even if it’s only this one time, it’s good enough for me to smile and think somewhere in the back of my mind, maybe I am reaching them.

That also goes for the students that I feel don’t want to be in my class in the first place!