9. Lighting a Spark: "Enrollment is the art and practice of generating a spark of possibility for others to share." As teachers, we may encounter students who shut themselves to new learning, who let their weaknesses take over their strengths, so we need to let them know that we are giving ourselves to them and to their learning with a world of possibilities, and soon they' ll be ready to catch that spark.
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10. Being the Board: " I am the board on which the whole game is played, I am the framework for everything that happens in my life". This is a hard one. I do not agree with it a 100%, but this is what I take away from it: as citizens of the world of measurement, we all tend to put the blame on someone else instead of embracing the situation, and reflecting on how we can make things different next time. If we see it this way, we will soon be immersed in a world of possibilities, and when a similar situation arises, we will know how to face it and how to make a difference.
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12. Telling the WE Story: In the world of measurement where everything is divided, we see an "us" and "them", but in the world of possibilities we focus on the "WE" as a whole entity seeking to contribute to that world, to seeking to share passion, to think outside the box, to embrace the environment, to construct instead of separate, and make things fall apart...
I think you said it beautifully in that so many of our students do show us their weaknesses, or that is what they believe in themselves, and it is up to us to "light that spark" (and I love the image you chose!)and show them the possibilities. And how you summed it up that the "WE" as a "whole entity" needs to contribute to the world, to construct not separate...I hope we help our students understand and see this. Our world certainly needs this even more so today.
ReplyDeleteFari, you wrote out a practical application for chapter 11. “When trying to find a solution to a problem, it is a good idea to reconstruct the situation in different ways, to picture it, and to create a new scenario/setting that will activate new possibilities or results.” That is exactly what the teacher did in the story – she shaved her head to redefine acceptable fashion in the classroom. If she had merely reprimanded the children for mocking the girl with leukemia, it wouldn’t have had the same game-changing result. I like your wording: “to reconstruct the situation in different ways.” It’s almost like taking a problem and pretending it’s just a puzzle. Put all the pieces out in the open, and imagine different possibilities for fitting those pieces together.
ReplyDeletegreat overview/summary of the reading.
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