Think about how you began the year with your students. How do you want them to leave you? Inspired? Energized? Confident about next year?
You may want to craft a memorable lesson, speech, or personal note. Students may not remember all the content you taught them, but they WILL remember how you treated them!
“I have come to a frightening conclusion.
I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a
child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of
torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can
humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is
my response that decides whether a crisis will be
escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or
de-humanized.”
Dr. Haim G. Ginott (1995), Teacher and child: A book for parents and teachers, New York, NY: Collier.
I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a
child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of
torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can
humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is
my response that decides whether a crisis will be
escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or
de-humanized.”
Dr. Haim G. Ginott (1995), Teacher and child: A book for parents and teachers, New York, NY: Collier.
Dr. Haim G. Ginott