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Identify one or two practices you could implement to further nurture your students.
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A big part of my job is to get to know what my older students talents are in the fine arts field. I love seeing them excel when they figure out what in the arts excites them and what gifts God has given them. I suppose I really could dive deeper into conversation with them, eat a meal with them, and really get to know their many talents so as to better equip them with learning styles and lessons that really speak to them as individuals.
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There are many ways in which a teacher can nurture their students. Listening and having sincere conversations, providing them with a well furnished classroom and just cheering them on when they do well are all ways that show you care. One way that I hope to show students that I wish to nurture them is allowing them a special place in the classroom to share their pictures, artwork, and documentation of their interests and hobbies outside the classroom. I also plan to nature them by attending their extracurricular events such as basketball games, baseball games, singing performances at church, etc. Additionally, I want to be firm, but fair in my instruction while allowing time and space for team building activities as a course.
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I think I can nurture students by finding ways to relate with them and talk to them about it outside of a classroom manner. In my classroom behind a desk I would look less approachable and they would just see me as a “preachy” type of person. To talk with them while at recess or lunch would be a more approachable way to communicate with them about life.
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I would like to try the practice of a morning greeting as they walk in my course. I have seen other teachers online do this and I think it would be a cool, intentional way to say good morning to them and get them in a good mood as they enter the room. This could be a high-five, fist bump, dance move, etc.
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To further nurture my students I would like to end my lessons a few minutes early to allow for the students to approach me with any comment or question or story they want to share with me. I want to nurture my personal connection to them. I feel that since I teach many different grades as a Spanish teacher I do not get the quality time their homeroom teachers do. So I think that this new practice of starting slow and ending slow will help me better nurture my students.