Mr. Shelton listed the following strategies and quotes in this week's bulletin. I wanted to highlight them here. Let me know if they have any special meaning for you.
Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls, Secondary Level, p. 66
Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life-One of the first steps toward becoming a great, inspiring teacher is to concentrate on building strong relationships with your students while simultaneously making learning fun (Kunjufu, 2002). As obvious and rudimentary as it may sound, your students must actually like you, you must show that you like them. Students should be able to sense how you feel about them through your words and your actions. Many of them simply want someone to listen to their concerns and offer suggestions.
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lost.
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Marva Collins
Have a great week.
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