{"id":97,"date":"2019-01-09T17:40:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/?p=97"},"modified":"2019-01-09T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:47:52","slug":"how-do-you-set-up-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/2019\/01\/09\/how-do-you-set-up-success\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you set up success?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week I gained a whole new perspective on teaching. I am now a teacher-parent (or is it parent-teacher?). My newly minted 3 – year old son started full-time daycare on Monday. He went from being home with a caregiver having full attention, to being in a room of 18 students with 2 adults – slightly less than 1:1 attention he was used to throughout the day. To say it has been a smooth transition would be an absolute lie.<\/p>\n

It’s the first time I’ve been the “parent” in the parent-teacher relationship and day 1 challenged me. I felt awful leaving the first day and wondered if we had made the right choice. I wanted to make excuses for behaviour, but I knew I didn’t want to be “that” parent. I also know that if he was at home, I\u00a0would have disciplined the behaviour as well, so there was no reason to make excuses as it was inexcusable. I know kids are resilient and bounce back after some transition time, and I’ve seen it a lot with my own work, but it’s different when you are the parent.<\/p>\n

The next day we went in, and the teachers were so cheerful to see my very apprehensive\u00a0son that it immediately set him at ease. One of the teachers remembered an activity\u00a0he enjoyed the day before and set him up doing that right away.\u00a0 My parent brain was going “that’s so sweet” as I left and headed myself to work and later, upon reflection, my teacher-brain went “she set my son up for success first thing, she’s creating a relationship with him, she’s learning about how he learns” and this whole experience got me thinking about what we do as teachers each start of a term, each start of a week, each start of a class to build relationships and set our students up for success. This then got me thinking that maybe I’m not the only teacher coming back from break thinking about curriculum outcomes, how many school days I have to get through them and all of the other “content” parts of my job. Maybe I’m not the only turkey-comatose adult needing a reminder to put relationships first in the next few weeks (then again, maybe I am….there was a lot of turkey\u00a0going around).<\/p>\n

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