1. What role does school play in building students’ agency and identity?
Schools play a major part in the up bring of students. Most schools in the United States or in session 6-8 hours a day, students spend a third of their life in these intuitions. Over all, I believe student’s find their sense of community, identity beliefs in schools.
2. How aware are you and your colleagues of the impact our choice of words have on developing students’ agency and identity? Can you give examples? I have worked at two schools in my career, one was a community school and the other is a charter school. At the community school my colleagues talked to the students in a very aggressive tone, I don’t know if it was the right thing to do, but it worked with court ordered students. So I guess you can say teachers didn’t hold student’s identity in high esteem. At my charter school I work at teachers have been fired for disrespecting students through their words. It’s a total opposite culture of what I was used to. The culture at the charter school students or held in high esteem, we feel they are the future of our country so we speak to them as if they already are.
2. What would you do, if anything, to make using choice words a more conscious and accountable school wide practice if you were the school leader?
I would make sure staff and students are accountable for their words. We never know the state of mind of a person so we need to speak positive to them. A negative word can send someone in to a downward spiral, but of the flip side of that a positive word can up let the spirt of someone.
3. What could you do, if anything, to make the use of choice words a more conscious and accountable personal practice as well as one embraced by others on your site? Are those things within your sphere of influence?
I wouldn’t change anything at my current school. Right now the only one I can hold accountable is myself, but I feel that some of my coworkers can be influence by my actions just how I been influence by there’s.
5. Commit to 5 things you are willing to do this semester that will make your school choose words wisely?
1. Speak more positively to students.
2. Think before I speak.
3. Create a culture where negative words or not the norm.
4. Commit to up lifting students that might not have the best home life.
5. Be a casteless of change.
Schools play a major part in the up bring of students. Most schools in the United States or in session 6-8 hours a day, students spend a third of their life in these intuitions. Over all, I believe student’s find their sense of community, identity beliefs in schools.
2. How aware are you and your colleagues of the impact our choice of words have on developing students’ agency and identity? Can you give examples? I have worked at two schools in my career, one was a community school and the other is a charter school. At the community school my colleagues talked to the students in a very aggressive tone, I don’t know if it was the right thing to do, but it worked with court ordered students. So I guess you can say teachers didn’t hold student’s identity in high esteem. At my charter school I work at teachers have been fired for disrespecting students through their words. It’s a total opposite culture of what I was used to. The culture at the charter school students or held in high esteem, we feel they are the future of our country so we speak to them as if they already are.
2. What would you do, if anything, to make using choice words a more conscious and accountable school wide practice if you were the school leader?
I would make sure staff and students are accountable for their words. We never know the state of mind of a person so we need to speak positive to them. A negative word can send someone in to a downward spiral, but of the flip side of that a positive word can up let the spirt of someone.
3. What could you do, if anything, to make the use of choice words a more conscious and accountable personal practice as well as one embraced by others on your site? Are those things within your sphere of influence?
I wouldn’t change anything at my current school. Right now the only one I can hold accountable is myself, but I feel that some of my coworkers can be influence by my actions just how I been influence by there’s.
5. Commit to 5 things you are willing to do this semester that will make your school choose words wisely?
1. Speak more positively to students.
2. Think before I speak.
3. Create a culture where negative words or not the norm.
4. Commit to up lifting students that might not have the best home life.
5. Be a casteless of change.