Thank you to all of you who have participated. Your blog entries are thought provoking and great reflections of what can be brought back to the building. Thanks again for taking time out during your summer to engaged this learning!!!!
I have confirmed that relationships are the key. More specifically the key to students and teacher success in the classroom. I plan to start by greeting students and begin to build relationships through name game activities and creating a safe environment.
I will definitely engage students more. First I, personally, must work on my self-discipline so that I continue on with the process. As I said at the last launch, I completely buy in to the process, but I lack the self-discipline to continue it. I need to develop that skill if I want to be successful in implementing the skills I learned in this training.
I can totally relate to your dilemma. I also have a very difficult time staying consistent with these things. I am going to try to get it in place so the students help keep me accountable.
Jason, I will be emailing you with a few questions if you don't mind. This is a big change!I would love to hear any advice about applying this method at school. Take care
That darn self-discipline! If anything sabbotages me, it will likely be me, in the area of self-discipline! I wish I knew why I allow myself to get lax in some areas...even though they are meaningful to me! Always a struggle and I can relate!!
Do you think we can get up a support group this fall to help/share with questions, successes and failures? It may help us to stay a bit more disciplined.
Well, maybe you and I can give each other an occasional accountability check, because I know I will need these in order to maximize the impact of what I've learned in this class.
These three days have made me realize that you need to actively model and teach students behaviors you find important. I can't expect them to have the same priorities that I do then become frustrated when they don't. I plan to start next year, greeting my students, including activities to get to know them, instead of passively expecting it to happen. I think that creating a social contract and knowing the students better will help alleviate much of the frustration later on.
Jesse, you are spot on with the modeling aspect of this. I think I do a good job of modeling some behaviors but find myself assuming the students should already know these things by their 15th birthday.
My plan is to implement the program into my classroom. Some of the ideas I already use in my class. There are a lot of new things that I can add to enhance my students learning even more. Because of the structure of this program It will help me be more consistent with my students. I have already applied some of these things with my family and have noticed a difference. I am excited to apply it to my classroom.
A lot of the stuff in this class is simple but sadly I've never thought about it. That's cool that you've noticed a difference with your family. We all need to get better about treating one another with love and respect.
My plan is to apply this model in my home this summer for many great reasons! One--it is a great model and can do nothing but help us. Two--it will give me a test run before I apply it at school. Thanks to my administration for setting up this training. It was so valuable! Thanks to my colleagues for opening their hearts and minds for 3 days. I can't wait to see the mutual benefits during the year!
I will be interested to see how it worked out for you Heather, For some reason I'm kind of nervous about implementing it in my home, maybe because I know I'll have to change some of my behaviors too.
I am going to implement the mail bags in my classroom and a social contract. These ideas are a big paradigm shift in thinking for myself as a teacher and for the students. Having the relationships with my students is what I have been missing the last few years. I am excited to go back to that being first and them the curricula will fallow in place.
I know that I can do mailbags and a social contract in my advisement group! I also would like to teach the hand signals to help the kids self-regulate.
I liked the timeout signal to get everyone quiet. I think that will be effective in the classroom. I'm still a little unsure about the foul sign and the check sign. Implementing those will probably be one of the biggest challenges for me.
I plan on greeting every one of my students every day, this will require me being a little more organized at the beginning of the period, so I'm not using that time to hurry up and get something ready for the class.
I don't think I can say my thinking has changed as a result of the CKH workshop. I like to think that I am already very kid-centric. What I will be implementing, though, on day one next year is to truly create a social contract with my classes that do not get swept under the rug a few weeks into school.
I think all of us have been somewhere on the learning curve, as far as implementing many of these strategies, even before attending this course; but what I know needs to be first priority for me is being resolute about being at the door greeting kids as they come in, armed with the tools I learned during this course.
Thank you to all of you who have participated. Your blog entries are thought provoking and great reflections of what can be brought back to the building. Thanks again for taking time out during your summer to engaged this learning!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have confirmed that relationships are the key. More specifically the key to students and teacher success in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI plan to start by greeting students and begin to build relationships through name game activities and creating a safe environment.
While I never really enjoyed participating or leading name games, I have come to believe they are worth the effort, as a result of this class.
DeleteI will definitely engage students more. First I, personally, must work on my self-discipline so that I continue on with the process. As I said at the last launch, I completely buy in to the process, but I lack the self-discipline to continue it. I need to develop that skill if I want to be successful in implementing the skills I learned in this training.
ReplyDeleteI can totally relate to your dilemma. I also have a very difficult time staying consistent with these things. I am going to try to get it in place so the students help keep me accountable.
DeleteJason, I will be emailing you with a few questions if you don't mind. This is a big change!I would love to hear any advice about applying this method at school. Take care
DeleteThat darn self-discipline! If anything sabbotages me, it will likely be me, in the area of self-discipline! I wish I knew why I allow myself to get lax in some areas...even though they are meaningful to me! Always a struggle and I can relate!!
DeleteDo you think we can get up a support group this fall to help/share with questions, successes and failures? It may help us to stay a bit more disciplined.
DeleteDITTO, DITTO, DITTO! Self-discipline is the key. If we can't or won't do it, how can we expect the kids to believe in it.
DeleteWell, maybe you and I can give each other an occasional accountability check, because I know I will need these in order to maximize the impact of what I've learned in this class.
DeleteThese three days have made me realize that you need to actively model and teach students behaviors you find important. I can't expect them to have the same priorities that I do then become frustrated when they don't.
ReplyDeleteI plan to start next year, greeting my students, including activities to get to know them, instead of passively expecting it to happen. I think that creating a social contract and knowing the students better will help alleviate much of the frustration later on.
I totally agree with your assessment. I have started using some of these tactics in my family and have noticed a difference.
DeleteJesse, you are spot on with the modeling aspect of this. I think I do a good job of modeling some behaviors but find myself assuming the students should already know these things by their 15th birthday.
DeleteMy plan is to implement the program into my classroom. Some of the ideas I already use in my class. There are a lot of new things that I can add to enhance my students learning even more. Because of the structure of this program It will help me be more consistent with my students. I have already applied some of these things with my family and have noticed a difference. I am excited to apply it to my classroom.
ReplyDeleteCool idea, Heather!!
DeleteA lot of the stuff in this class is simple but sadly I've never thought about it. That's cool that you've noticed a difference with your family. We all need to get better about treating one another with love and respect.
DeleteMy plan is to apply this model in my home this summer for many great reasons! One--it is a great model and can do nothing but help us. Two--it will give me a test run before I apply it at school. Thanks to my administration for setting up this training. It was so valuable! Thanks to my colleagues for opening their hearts and minds for 3 days. I can't wait to see the mutual benefits during the year!
ReplyDeleteI will be interested to see how it worked out for you Heather, For some reason I'm kind of nervous about implementing it in my home, maybe because I know I'll have to change some of my behaviors too.
DeleteI think implementing the plan at home is a smart way to master the steps on the small scale. I bet you'll do fine.
DeleteI am going to implement the mail bags in my classroom and a social contract. These ideas are a big paradigm shift in thinking for myself as a teacher and for the students. Having the relationships with my students is what I have been missing the last few years. I am excited to go back to that being first and them the curricula will fallow in place.
ReplyDeleteI know that I can do mailbags and a social contract in my advisement group! I also would like to teach the hand signals to help the kids self-regulate.
ReplyDeleteI want to use the hand signals as well. I think the kids will find it fun and a bit different for HS.
DeleteI liked the timeout signal to get everyone quiet. I think that will be effective in the classroom. I'm still a little unsure about the foul sign and the check sign. Implementing those will probably be one of the biggest challenges for me.
DeleteSelf regulation is an awesome thing. Especially when kids see that it's there for the benefit of the entire class and not just the teacher.
DeleteI plan on greeting every one of my students every day, this will require me being a little more organized at the beginning of the period, so I'm not using that time to hurry up and get something ready for the class.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I can say my thinking has changed as a result of the CKH workshop. I like to think that I am already very kid-centric. What I will be implementing, though, on day one next year is to truly create a social contract with my classes that do not get swept under the rug a few weeks into school.
ReplyDeleteI plan to use the hand shake and help students learn to act in a professional manner.
ReplyDeleteI think all of us have been somewhere on the learning curve, as far as implementing many of these strategies, even before attending this course; but what I know needs to be first priority for me is being resolute about being at the door greeting kids as they come in, armed with the tools I learned during this course.
ReplyDeleteThe next thing I plan to do is the contract. Some of you may remember that I stumbled into this strategy in a class, and it worked very well.
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