I really miss some of that one-on-one instructional time with students, I’m finding. Proof of… had a year-end wrap up meeting with one of my teachers today at Madison Park, and a stop-in hello from one of his students that I’ve gotten to know turned into an hour conversation of shaping the summer plans, getting him set up with his first email account, suggestions of how to get himself financially set up with his first savings/checking account, and otherwise encouraging him to ‘step his game up’ and do well for himself.
And seeing his tangible excitement of learning something new, asking plenty, plenty of questions, and taking his own sets of notes to help him remember what to do. Talk about setting up a context for learning, no?
“You’re like a light shining in my life, right now man,” he says, “you ought to have your own television show or something. A new Dr. Phil.”
Well, that may be going a little far (heh), but awfully nice to hear.
Conversation with a student
I really miss some of that one-on-one instructional time with students, I’m finding. Proof of… had a year-end wrap up meeting with one of my teachers today at Madison Park, and a stop-in hello from one of his students that I’ve gotten to know turned into an hour conversation of shaping the summer plans, getting him set up with his first email account, suggestions of how to get himself financially set up with his first savings/checking account, and otherwise encouraging him to ‘step his game up’ and do well for himself.
And seeing his tangible excitement of learning something new, asking plenty, plenty of questions, and taking his own sets of notes to help him remember what to do. Talk about setting up a context for learning, no?
“You’re like a light shining in my life, right now man,” he says, “you ought to have your own television show or something. A new Dr. Phil.”
Well, that may be going a little far (heh), but awfully nice to hear.