Hello mentorship learning team....
Hello fellow mentor-ship researchers,
I'm making this blog so we all have a place to link what we are learning about creating a more student centered classroom.
In spite of the fact that I'm really not into leadership I am trying to do some here. Ugh.
I want to make the mentorship work better in my class simply because I hope to create a better community among the students. It makes their lives better and therefore mine too. It is equity work. Racial equity work. Class equity work. Gender equity work. All that. I think our current educational system constantly places all of us into box after box after box. After teaching for almost 20 years now I don't see easy solutions for it. Teachers are on the line to provide content, create process, create interesting experiences to interest students, show what we know. I usually love doing that, since I do love science and Chemistry. But I also know that even though I've gotten pretty good at instructing in Chemistry and science there are always other ways of looking at things. I also know that I daydreamed a hell of a lot as a high school student. Just like my students (maybe not yours...) also do. I didn't always know who I should ask questions of. The bell rings, you go here and there, you pick up this and that... Some of our students talk to each other about school work we provide, but they would usually rather talk about anything else but what we think they should. So what are ways to work on that problem?
How do we get them to help each other more? Academically and personally are totally interrelated. I've already found some good research about it...
So in spite of having had a nasty cold for over a week now and barely being able to talk today here's the start of a mentorship blog. I hope it helps create an even better school for more of our students.
Please add links you find for good research. If you don't know how, stop by my room and I'll show you. Please add thoughts as well.
Now, where did I put those menthol cough suppressants?
Staab
I'm making this blog so we all have a place to link what we are learning about creating a more student centered classroom.
In spite of the fact that I'm really not into leadership I am trying to do some here. Ugh.
I want to make the mentorship work better in my class simply because I hope to create a better community among the students. It makes their lives better and therefore mine too. It is equity work. Racial equity work. Class equity work. Gender equity work. All that. I think our current educational system constantly places all of us into box after box after box. After teaching for almost 20 years now I don't see easy solutions for it. Teachers are on the line to provide content, create process, create interesting experiences to interest students, show what we know. I usually love doing that, since I do love science and Chemistry. But I also know that even though I've gotten pretty good at instructing in Chemistry and science there are always other ways of looking at things. I also know that I daydreamed a hell of a lot as a high school student. Just like my students (maybe not yours...) also do. I didn't always know who I should ask questions of. The bell rings, you go here and there, you pick up this and that... Some of our students talk to each other about school work we provide, but they would usually rather talk about anything else but what we think they should. So what are ways to work on that problem?
How do we get them to help each other more? Academically and personally are totally interrelated. I've already found some good research about it...
So in spite of having had a nasty cold for over a week now and barely being able to talk today here's the start of a mentorship blog. I hope it helps create an even better school for more of our students.
Please add links you find for good research. If you don't know how, stop by my room and I'll show you. Please add thoughts as well.
Now, where did I put those menthol cough suppressants?
Staab
posted by Chemistry Staab @ 1:31 PM
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