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People don’t see everything.
We may think we do, but in reality there is so much that escapes our
sight. I liked that the Zander’s gave
great examples of how much may be missed during our day that we don’t think
about. Many times during these chapters
I thought about what happens each day in not only my personal life, but also in
my professional life with my students. I
tried to think about the world of possibilities that they spoke of and how we
can accomplish things in our lives by opening up to new ideas and taking larger
risks.
I thought the idea of giving everyone an A right off the bat
was very interesting. In the beginning
of the EMDT program I remember having no risk assignments that basically if you
did you got an A. It was nice to have
less pressure and I still worked hard on my project. I know that every week in school kids ask me,
“How much do I have to do to get an A?”
Giving them the chance to have that internal motivation and not worry
about the grade, but worry about reaching their full potential is the main
goal. I don’t know exactly how to get
rid of grades, especially in elementary school, but I would love to find a way
to have students not think of their grades as a way to compare themselves to
others and focus more on the actual learning at hand.
One last piece that I loved was thinking about the
contribution game. How do you make a
contribution each week? I think it would
be a real eye opener for students to write down ways they contributed at the
end of each week. This could help
students to think about ways that they help, and ways they could help in the
future.
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