tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769449254669850193.post8840659384779874868..comments2024-03-27T02:33:38.752-05:00Comments on A Teacher's Ruminations: The Last Day of SchoolAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994116033556993440noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769449254669850193.post-69221845496797519722010-07-19T08:54:33.992-05:002010-07-19T08:54:33.992-05:00Hi Allan,
Thanks for your comment. I know that th...Hi Allan,<br />Thanks for your comment. I know that the names of teachers that I could put in the blank are not necessarily the teachers that I feel "liked me" but definitely the ones that cared about me as a learner and did what they could to push me to become better than I was. Those are the teachers I appreciate and probably have at the back of my mind when I work with my own students.<br />ElisaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11994116033556993440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769449254669850193.post-45085110946636696792010-07-18T13:47:41.500-05:002010-07-18T13:47:41.500-05:00Hi,
Thanks for sharing that special moment. This ...Hi,<br /><br />Thanks for sharing that special moment. This reminds me of what Alfie Kohn says at the end of his article on Unconditional Teaching <br /><br /><br />Imagine that your students are invited to respond to a questionnaire several years after leaving the school. They’re asked to indicate whether they agree or disagree – and how strongly – with statements such as: “Even when I wasn’t proud of how I acted, even when I didn’t do the homework, even when I got low test scores or didn’t seem interested in what was being taught, I knew that [insert your name here] still cared about me.”<br /><br />How would you like your students to answer that sort of question? How do you think they will answer it?<br /><br />I also need to thank you for indirectly getting my blog counter going.Allanhttp://allankatz-parentingislearning.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com