{"id":81,"date":"2016-04-10T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/?p=81"},"modified":"2016-04-10T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T15:16:50","slug":"sometimes-you-gotta-run-before-you-can-walk-tony-stark-ironman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/2016\/04\/10\/sometimes-you-gotta-run-before-you-can-walk-tony-stark-ironman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes you gotta run, before you can walk.- Tony Stark (IronMan)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My action plan is one of those that really started on my first day of teaching and will be on-going all the way to my last day. Nevertheless, the gravitas of an “official action plan” has given me licence to think more deliberately about what the students and I do together and the effect we have on eachother. I am still working through “action research”. <\/p>\n

In the last couple of months I have filtered many experiences, observations and conversations though the butterfly net of “reducing chaos”. I often wondered if I was on the right track. Was this action plan worthy of the effort, study and attention in the context of Cohort21? Had I sqandered opportunity for something more important than what sounds like Lecture 1 of the Teacher Education Seminar? Was I running out of time before our final meeting? <\/p>\n

I thought I’d better get cracking and try to implment something. Naturally, I defaulted to my own level of chaos by testing out a whole bunch of different ideas and procedures all at once<\/em>. Not all were implimented effectively of course, with once specific exception. I talked directly to students about the problem, LOTS OF THEM. I have collected thoughts and ideas from students I teach, students I used to teach, students I have never taught, students who have graduated and kids that do not even go to my school. BEST IDEA EVER. As you might imagine, this process takes a fair amount of personal time because young people have a tendancy towards impromptu candor outside of classtime. I found you have to be present and available for conversation opportunities and co-curricular activities are a gold-mine. I have learned that once you demonstrate that you are really<\/strong> listening<\/strong><\/em> teenagers will speak their truth. In addition to these casual conversations, I also asked my grade ten art class to respond to a google survey about the course and anonymity certainly removed the need for self-censorship. Yikes! But once I licked my wounds, I could also properly recognise the responses that allow me to celebrate. In talking at length with kids (sometimes for hours) I have returned to one idea again and again. I might think<\/em> I know what students are thinking and feeling but I’m probably wrong. Its better to ask them and best to ask as many of them as possible. <\/p>\n

What did I learn from the students? (LOTS!) More specifically, I do have the right action plan both for me and for them. The teenage life is chaotic. Although they recognize that some chaos comes with the territory, they do not particularly enjoy living that way.<\/p>\n

What’s next? Now that I’ve run I’m ready suit up and take my action plan for a nice slow walk.<\/p>\n

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My action plan is one of those that really started on my first day of teaching and will be on-going all the way to my last day. Nevertheless, the gravitas of an “official action plan” has given me licence to think more deliberately about what the students and I do together and the effect we … Continue reading “Sometimes you gotta run, before you can walk.- Tony Stark (IronMan)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}