Responsibility
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Gleaned from Scott McLeod…
“You can’t expect responsible kids if you don’t give them any responsibility.”
Love it.
Isn’t this what it is all about, this teaching business?
Thanks Scott.
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Never a truer word!
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Old post, new reader. Allen Mendler says that you must give a student hope before you give them responsibility.
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Angie, thanks for posting. I agree, so let me rephrase…hope is what it’s all about, really.
I think that hope is a prerequisite for everything. Without hope, why are we doing anything?
Part of my professional and personal practice involves looking for instances of hope. It is a very primal thing for me. Those instances make me feel alive.
When students are given responsibility and take it I am touched, because to me this demonstrates that they do have hope for a positive future in which they play an important role.
Thanks for pushing me deeper on this one!
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