Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Week 2 Reflection
My reflection for week 2 is about action research and the project I'm going to pursue. I feel strong about attendance and more strongly about students. I believe this to be an issue everywhere and I know everybody has tried just about anything and everything to fix it. I think it is about relationships with students and building trust with each other in order to motivate and encourage them to go to school.There are many issues that I could research, but this is a current problem at the high school where I am currently teaching. I have built many relationships with the athletes at the high school and we have turned over a new leaf in the areas of discipline and attendance issues. We stress to our athletes to do the right thing and to possess the count-on-me attitude. The athletes have bought into these concepts and we are building relationships everyday. It means a lot to me to see this happening.
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The issue of life is relationship. This being said, there is no more difficult time for relationship than the teenage years. Destructive relationships are as easily formed as constructive ones. In a conversation with a friend a few years ago, we discovered we were at the same school several years apart. I asked him if he a certain teacher. He replied he never enjoyed his class. I was speechless. That teacher had a great influence on me and we still have relationship nearly fifty years later. I know it is difficult to continually develop relationship and this is the challenge for all no matter our profession. The old saying is "It's not what you know but who you know.". I have to admit I can name more friends I made in high school than things I learned. Relationships change and give meaning to life.
ReplyDeleteI think it is important that we try to reach students as early as we can. If we can do that then we can teach them to be responsible for their own actions which would include attendance. I agree it's about relationships. I would like to see how you get teenage students to buy in to the commitment to be at school every day. I feel when they are missing school they are missing valuable learning time.
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