The great unspoken
I have had to remove the content of this post due to issues of privacy…..
Thank you for your words of support.
Finish the saying:
“You can lead a student to…. But you can’t make him….”
April 8, 2008
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You can lead a student to the global classroom but you can’t make him open the door.
He sounds like a lovely character
We’ve all had afternoons like that!
The thing is though that this is not the worst afternoon possible. In my time I have been abused and threatened with bodily harm by a young lad off his Ritalin while hanging from the top of the playground climbing frame 3/4 metres above my head. Tempted to tell him to jump if he was that keen on spilling blood.
Once we had a ‘dress-up like the olden days’ day and I was in full length 1800’s outfit complete with overlarge hat- another missing link decided that that was the day he was going to get himself eventually expelled. Very difficult to carry an air of authority while dressed like a museum dummy.
You can lead a student to learn but you can’t do it for him.
Hi Simon,
you have my complete and utter sympathy, B***** sounds like a great mate for a couple of chaps in my class. I often feel incredibly frustrated when certain children disrupt the learning of others and of themselves.
You can lead a student to learning opportunities but you can’t make him take up the opportunity to learn.
Or as I’ve said to some of my cherubs on occasion - Only you can choose to learn something and make it stick.
Hope you have a better day tomorrow.
What an amazingly detailed account of your afternoon! Certainly sounds like it us burned into your memory
Chin up, and make tomorrow a better day!!!
Oh my, I am so sorry, and so embarrassed about the behaviour of one of my students.
You can lead a student towards managing his own behaviour but you can not do it for him.
I do hope that this is the first and LAST worst-ever afternoon you will have with my class.
Thank you all for your words of encouragement… Sometimes you think its you.
@Allanahk - I think you win…
@Kirstin - I think we all have people like that in our class. It’s almost like there are roles in the class not individuals, class clown- tick. geeky one- tick, miss onehundredquestions- tick, teacherspet- tick (pet being that we try to keep them in a cage at the back of class
@nzchrissy No worries- it has very, very little, if anything, to do with you. You just keep having fun- the kids are loving the challenges btw.
What happened and who asked for it to be removed if I may ask?
Sounds eventful - whatever it may be…
Hope the week gets better… it’s almost over… that’s a good start
You can lead a student to SPEAK (or act)
But you can’t make him THINK (before doing so).
We’ve all had such days… they should bear no more weight in our memory than the days when we witness student enlightenment or the lessons where we witness ‘A ha!’ moments.
The missing content here speaks directly to the question I’m pondering this week… amidst all the appropriate use policies we put in place for our students, what are the guidelines that we as educators can live by in our online lives?
Would love to hear your thoughts over here.