May 11th, 2011
Yesterday we had this meeting with Dennis Littky. We had a good conversation. We talked about a lot of things. Among them; the vision he had about testing and how you get this special atmosphere in your school..how do you build this culture.
What made me think was the part about how the senior students show the younger ones.
One student actually said that when he didn’t know how to act or what to do, he just looked at the seniors because ‘they showed me’.
It got me thinking about how we can accomplish that in our own school. First of all we have to think how we get the opportunity since the older students are out all the time.
Second of all we to place these students in a spot where they are treated as a role model, so they can feel that they are, and then can act en behave as a role model. We have some work to do in that area I guess…
Because Dennis Littky is a busy man, he had to leave early for another appointment. Next week we’ll have the opportunity to ask him the questions that we prepared.
This morning we had a pick me up. It was time to say our goodbyes to two social worker-interns.
Instead of only a speech they asked students to stand up and say why they are grateful and why they want to thank the interns.
The comment that really caught me was from this girl. She said she wanted to thank her social worker for helping her out. But especially for the fact that she wasn’t treated as a high school student but as a young adult. She said that this made her feel better about herself.
And that is what it’s all about……Dieuwertje Greuter
Prakticon, Doetinchem
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