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...Meet ‘em where they’re at
After picking my kids up from their various schools yesterday, I asked them about their new teachers. My daughter has a new teacher at her school who has an interesting approach to the growing number of cell phones in class. He said to them yesterday, “You think I don’t see you randomly staring at your crotch? You think that you’re getting away with it but I can see you when you text in class.” He claimed that he had tried various punishments, including taking cell phones away, but nothing seemed to hinder their use. Finally he arrived at his manifesto which he delivered shouting from his chair on the first day of class, “Let them text!”
For five minutes every day in the middle of class, he breaks and allows the kids to type their little fingers off - checking emails, texting, posting to Facebook - but for the rest of the class if he sees anyone using their phone, it goes out the window. I asked my daughter what she thought about his approach. She said, “It’s fair and reasonable.”
Today I’d like to take inspiration from my daughter’s teacher and open up to the possibility of thinking outside the box and finding creative solutions to age-old problems (isn’t texting in class a permutation of note-passing?)
Where are you rigid in your thinking? Where could you benefit from an “If you can’t beat ‘em, meet ‘em” approach? How could you find the win/win solution to problems more easily?
...Meet ‘em where they’re at
After picking my kids up from their various schools yesterday, I asked them about their new teachers. My daughter has a new teacher at her school who has an interesting approach to the growing number of cell phones in class. He said to them yesterday, “You think I don’t see you randomly staring at your crotch? You think that you’re getting away with it but I can see you when you text in class.” He claimed that he had tried various punishments, including taking cell phones away, but nothing seemed to hinder their use. Finally he arrived at his manifesto which he delivered shouting from his chair on the first day of class, “Let them text!”
For five minutes every day in the middle of class, he breaks and allows the kids to type their little fingers off - checking emails, texting, posting to Facebook - but for the rest of the class if he sees anyone using their phone, it goes out the window. I asked my daughter what she thought about his approach. She said, “It’s fair and reasonable.”
Today I’d like to take inspiration from my daughter’s teacher and open up to the possibility of thinking outside the box and finding creative solutions to age-old problems (isn’t texting in class a permutation of note-passing?)
Where are you rigid in your thinking? Where could you benefit from an “If you can’t beat ‘em, meet ‘em” approach? How could you find the win/win solution to problems more easily?
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