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What are one or two practices you’d like to implement that would allow you to demonstrate your care for and commitment to your students? If you already have practices in place, what are they?
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I pray for my students. Also if they do something good I may send a note home to the parents.
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I do daily devotions with, and pray for, my students. I also take the time to give each one encouragement to work harder on their subjects so they can raise their grades.
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I would like to meet students individually at the beginning of the year to learn about what are some challenges they want to overcome and ask them if they know what could possibly be some of their gifts and talents. I would also like to learn from the students’ parents what are areas where they hope their child would grow. Throughout the year I would like to pray for those consistently and ask God to help me love the children with the love of Christ. I would also pray to find resources to support them and provide things that interest them.
Another practice I would like to implement is to maintain a good environment in the classroom that is clean, organized and where children can find many resources to learn.
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In my course we share prayer requests and pray for each other. I start out by modeling the expectations and share my own requests. Sometimes when a student shares a really hard thing they are struggling with we pause and let them discuss it more in a safe, accepting environment. I would like to find ways to challenge my students and find their true extent of knowledge in the various subject I teach. Maybe using an extra hard extra problem would work well for this, while letting my students know that the problem will not count against them and only is there to see how much they truly know.
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When I first started in the classroom I put into place an open door policy and a confidential policy (within reason and with safty concerns) so that students my come to me when they need to vent, talk or a place to “hide” for a few minutes to calm down. I know as an adult i routinely need these in my life and children who do not know how to control their emotions need it as well. I do remind them that if anything they say hurts themselves, or others than I am required to tell but when they just need an outlet then they know they can come to me.