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4 thoughts on “Classroom Management – 4”
Can I assume it is no accident that the title features Atman so prominently?! Makes me smile from the inside 🙂
I am ready for some deep reflection on this. I agree wholeheartedly about your bookend analogy, although I feel like it is more alive, more like soil that must be tended in order for seeds to sprout.
Nice catch on atman. No, it wasn’t intentional.
I want to get through the CM “review” part of the book as fast as possible but it will probably take posts well into July to do that part. Oh well. I have two specific ways I want to look at the internal reflection part. Hopefully they are up and running here by mid-July.
I wish I had some guidelines over the past 40 years for all those in-class moments from hell. Oh well. Better late than never. But I sure don’t miss them now in retirement.
I should add jen that I’m no psychologist but the whole thing I want to examine for the internal CM reflection work is about boundaries and awareness. I think that in our society kids don’t get the word no, never learn it at home, and it has created a nation of incredibly rude but unconscious kids. We can only change that by the teachers getting it together on boundaries and setting limits in real ways in a kind way, like real adults. No easy task. But why do CI, which has such greatness in it in terms of pedagogy, when we don’t know how to set limits and know what our boundaries are with the kids? That’s kind of the direction I’m taking this.
boundaries and awareness…
Being aware of how we are reacting to students AND how the students are affected by our actions. Having that kind of meta-cognition in the moment is truly, an enlightened skill.
Having been married to an African-American for 8 years, this talk makes me think of the kind of awareness that African Americans have that whites do not. Ok, I’m generalizing. But there’s truth to it. I’m white. We white people tend to dump our complaints, our frustrations, our personal affairs on others. Black people tend not to. We tend to show our discomfort on our faces. Black people tend not to. I see how this plays out in the classroom, especially when we are white and the students are of color. W.E.B. DuBois’s writings on Afro-American double consciousness come to mind.
We have to be aware of how we appear in that moment when a student breaks our composure. We have to remember to respond with the intention to uplift instead of respond with the intention to seek sympathy. Let’s not seek pity. Gosh, not even from our significant others let alone our students with whom our relationships are superficial, for the most part.
…we have to remember to respond with the intention to uplift….
This is the crux of my upcoming book on classroom management.