What my students think…
How do students see an ideal school? – one that will get them ready for the future? Whatr is their vision of a great school or classroom?
One where the children play together, the teachers do other kinds of things together. I wish that there was a spa in the classroom for the teachers to relax in. The playground is open to our classroom:- very classroom gets their own playground. The whole school has lunch before morning tea. We have a skate bowl at school. Middle syndicate has fun playing sports. You have to go to a different class to do different stuff. Have our own disco. We can ride our bikes. Lunch orders for lunch AND play. A big pool for everyone to swim in. Getting free lunch. Heaps of computers in our classrooms- to find stuff out. Every class to have an IWB to play games on. I think we should have a basketball stadium and our own Xbox at your place. We should have fizzes and lollies at school.
-It appears to me that my students are wanting ’school’ to prepare them for a job at Googleplex! And why not?
What can the school do to help you get ready for the future?
Help us with our learning: maths, spelling and reading. Help us to get to University. Insist on no junk food. To help us choose what we want to do in the future. Help me save money for the future.
-Wish the school would help me save too! Isn’t it interesting that ‘insisting on no junk food’ is up there with ‘get to University.
-Perhaps the answers to these questions reveal a lot more about my school and my teaching style than it does about the students par se.
