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My comment for Kimberly Duran:
Kimberly,
I love the way you have shared your experiences along the way with your students. I, too, share as much as I can. I think this allows them to see that one is never too old to learn and experience new, fun, creative and exciting things. Even though my students are much older than yours, they too have a lack of confidence and I believe this can be a factor in their engagement and motivation in the classroom. These two items are something both you and I addressed in our CBRs. In the book when they talk about contributing and that it is like a ripple in the pond, this was the perfect visual description of what can happen when one contributes. It not only grows and expands possibilities for the contributor but then the person on the receiving end comes up with ideas to contribute and that one ripple becomes many in the pond. You are a large contributor to your students, and to all of us who have been in this program with you, so thank you for being just one of the ripples in the pond.
~Dorreen
I love the way you have shared your experiences along the way with your students. I, too, share as much as I can. I think this allows them to see that one is never too old to learn and experience new, fun, creative and exciting things. Even though my students are much older than yours, they too have a lack of confidence and I believe this can be a factor in their engagement and motivation in the classroom. These two items are something both you and I addressed in our CBRs. In the book when they talk about contributing and that it is like a ripple in the pond, this was the perfect visual description of what can happen when one contributes. It not only grows and expands possibilities for the contributor but then the person on the receiving end comes up with ideas to contribute and that one ripple becomes many in the pond. You are a large contributor to your students, and to all of us who have been in this program with you, so thank you for being just one of the ripples in the pond.
~Dorreen
Kimberly Duran's Blog Post:
I really enjoyed the section about inventing yourself as a contribution, and even posted the steps in my classroom and it’s been a powerful thing:
- Declare yourself to be a contribution
- Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
A lot of my students are lacking confidence and I am always looking for new ways to find to let them know that they are important, and that their thoughts are meaningful, and THEY are meaningful, that they have a place in this world! Chapter 4 really just fell right in where I have been trying to go with this and I have really enjoyed learning things like this throughout this program. Things that I can take immediately back to my classroom and see it make in impact instantly. The students get a kick out of me sharing stuff from my Master’s program with them, and allowing them to be involved and learn through the different things that I have been doing.
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