Relationships

"These moments of true disturbance are great gifts"

Margret J Wheatley Bringing Schools Back to Life.
I feel one of the greatest qualities Margret Wheatley expresses is her ideas about community is the listening to the differences, allowing the disturbance to be a gift. Facing changes with love and respect.
"What if we were to willingly listen to one another with the awareness that we each see the world in unique ways? And with the expectations that I could learn something new if I listen for the differences rather than the similarities? We would be together, brought together by our differences rather than separated by them."
http://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/lifetoschools.html


We do have to have programs that do address the multiple intelligences in our students, engage and enrich the individual experience as well as the whole class and is active in the world audience,

Creative education means the individual, the class, and the greater school community can access higher and deeper understanding in education.
Subjects become doable, amendable, assessable Research, collaboration, evaluation, reflection, and presentation.
Creative education means the ability to inter weave, layer learning, in a scaffolding of sounds, Visuals, links, connections, that take a subject and the learner beyond Research to deeper understanding, gives Relevance and takes the student into other subjects, to many other areas of education and Life Skills. Subjects and the learning experience become alive and tangible.

Encouragement


Encouragement also referred to as ‘positive support’.
What is encouragement?

Encouragement is:

1. to give hope or confidence to
2. to urge
3. to stimulate
4. to help and to develop

Why use encouragement and what are its benefits?

There are many reasons why encouragement should be used. Some are:

1. It creates a bond of trust between teacher, student and entire class.
2. It gives students confidence. – i.e. they appreciate their own behaviour and accomplishments, while separating their work from their worth.
3. Students, who know that they are in a safe environment and will want to learn, engage and grow.
4. Students achieve high result and greater develop better – i.e. better in attitude, values and socially.
5. It increases student self esteem, and as result they will develop with more confidence – they will trust in challenging and testing theories – they will move out of their comfort zone – growth will occur.
6. It models ways of interacting with one another. ‘Put downs’ decrease and ‘build up’ increase.
7. Parents want their children to enjoy learning. It gives them confidence in you as a professional teacher.
8. You become much more approachable. Hence, students and parents will come to you to share problems and concerns.
9. It establishes a tone for your class.
10. Behaviour problems diminish dramatically and classroom management becomes easier.
11. Other students who you do not teach will look forward to you teaching them.
12. Your reputation, your self esteem and your confidence to handle situations increases.
13. You enjoy teaching more because your students want to give you more. More contact in class and more contact out of class.
14. It is one of the most effective strategies that you as a professional must use.
    

MOTIVATION

Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation. Ch 3 in Marsh.

Extrinsic – it is the motivation to act that comes from the external environment, outside of the person.

Intrinsically motivated learners want to learn because they are curious, they want to improve, they seek knowledge, and learning gives them satisfaction.
McKeachie (1999) notes that this form of motivation nurtures and encourages the habit of life-long learning.

I call on Tony"s prayer to take us beyond with Love.

Just a little prayer for us struggling teachers on the road to becoming experts.

May I be brave enough to embrace a new world view as
Espoused by Margaret Wheatley.
May I develop the wisdom of recognising Gardners Nine Intelligences
In my students.
May I gain true insight in teaching Glasser’s six basic needs of Survival;
Power, Love, Belonging, Freedom and Fun.
May I have the strength and courage to incorporate Hatties guide for expert teachers
Into every class, every day.
May I develop awareness of the full scope of the Constructivist approach
To education.
And may I develop the selflessness to recognise that students need to be encouraged to be creative in their approach to their own education and
Empowered in making decisions in relation to their lives