This is our staff blog where our departments will collaborate around ideas and thoughts that will improve teaching and learning and increase teacher capacity to lead in our school.
What 'pink bats' do we have? What problems do we see that might have solutions in front of us? How can we change our perceptions? Many thanks to Vickie Essick for sending me this video!!! Thank you!
These presentations are so fast that I have to watch them more than once to get the full meaning/message from them. I get caught up in the drawings the first time and then have to go back to listen to the message.
What he calls "problems" are really the results of something happening. It is how we see and react to what happens around us that make it a "pink bat" or an excuse for not doing something or why something is not working.
It is the same as making lemonade from lemons. You either see the lemons as something wonderful or you see them as something sour and useless.
Anyway these are my thoughts today. Time to get back to the lesson plans.
This is a great commentary on our perceptions and how much influence they have on our attitudes daily! Thanks for sharing Vickie!
Here's an example that comes to mind... We see class size as a problem. That's not going away, so I can choose to look at it as an opportunity to vary my student groups more often!
This was a wake up call for me. I don't know if it is me or just the fact that one becomes dis-empowered to solutions because as soon as you share an exiting idea there is always someone who says " but" and then your idea seems to loose a bit of that energy. . . wao this is an amazing video. Thanks for sharing.
These presentations are so fast that I have to watch them more than once to get the full meaning/message from them. I get caught up in the drawings the first time and then have to go back to listen to the message.
ReplyDeleteWhat he calls "problems" are really the results of something happening. It is how we see and react to what happens around us that make it a "pink bat" or an excuse for not doing something or why something is not working.
It is the same as making lemonade from lemons.
You either see the lemons as something wonderful or you see them as something sour and useless.
Anyway these are my thoughts today. Time to get back to the lesson plans.
This is a great commentary on our perceptions and how much influence they have on our attitudes daily! Thanks for sharing Vickie!
ReplyDeleteHere's an example that comes to mind...
We see class size as a problem. That's not going away, so I can choose to look at it as an opportunity to vary my student groups more often!
I'd be interested to hear others' thoughts....
Love it! (*said NAMS choral music teacher*)
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you Julia! The more that I'm around happy people that love teaching and love the students, I benefit from it!
ReplyDeleteThis was a wake up call for me. I don't know if it is me or just the fact that one becomes dis-empowered to solutions because as soon as you share an exiting idea there is always someone who says " but" and then your idea seems to loose a bit of that energy. . . wao this is an amazing video. Thanks for sharing.
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