Absolutely, one of the other things that you mentioned in your survey was something about encouraging the student with a professionalism redirect or talk to the parents. Can you tell me a little bit about that?
Rich: Parent communication, to me, has always been huge and I laugh at them now because I have a stack of 25 years ' worth of newsletters that went home to parents on a Commodore computer. We had to put in a floppy disc and type something and you pull it out and put it in to save another one. It took me an hour and a half every week to do it, but it was important enough to me to communicate to parents. Now it 's an email and it goes out quickly to the parents.
But, the communication is important, and I tell them the reward from …show more content…
You want them to walk out reflecting on something to go home to mom and dad. Selfishly, I want mom and dad on my side with those kids to support those kids in everything they can. Even more selfishly, I want them saying that there is a bond election coming up and my kid 's teacher is doing a good job. They need to know that I am invested enough in their child to say, I am going to communicate with you and let you know what is going …show more content…
Why don’t more teachers do it? Why is this not the norm, as opposed to not the norm? Why doesn’t every teacher take the opportunity to say, again instead of, I got this book and I have to do the book and this is what everybody else is doing and I have to do the same thing and they go along with that and really invest themselves and say, what is best for my kids? What can I do to make it better?
To me, every teacher should be doing that and that is professionalism. I am constant trying to drill to my kids in here that if you are in here to be a teacher, you are in the wrong place. If you are in here to be a good or great teacher, you are in the right place. I am going to challenge you and make you get better. I read two emails or texts to them form former students and both of them start out with; in November, I hated you Rich and I could not stand to come to class. I couldn’t stand to see you walk in a room, and now that I have my own classroom and I am in an environment with other teachers, I realize the importance of what you did. So, that is my reward for that, for the times that they don’t like me,
Rich: Parent communication, to me, has always been huge and I laugh at them now because I have a stack of 25 years ' worth of newsletters that went home to parents on a Commodore computer. We had to put in a floppy disc and type something and you pull it out and put it in to save another one. It took me an hour and a half every week to do it, but it was important enough to me to communicate to parents. Now it 's an email and it goes out quickly to the parents.
But, the communication is important, and I tell them the reward from …show more content…
You want them to walk out reflecting on something to go home to mom and dad. Selfishly, I want mom and dad on my side with those kids to support those kids in everything they can. Even more selfishly, I want them saying that there is a bond election coming up and my kid 's teacher is doing a good job. They need to know that I am invested enough in their child to say, I am going to communicate with you and let you know what is going …show more content…
Why don’t more teachers do it? Why is this not the norm, as opposed to not the norm? Why doesn’t every teacher take the opportunity to say, again instead of, I got this book and I have to do the book and this is what everybody else is doing and I have to do the same thing and they go along with that and really invest themselves and say, what is best for my kids? What can I do to make it better?
To me, every teacher should be doing that and that is professionalism. I am constant trying to drill to my kids in here that if you are in here to be a teacher, you are in the wrong place. If you are in here to be a good or great teacher, you are in the right place. I am going to challenge you and make you get better. I read two emails or texts to them form former students and both of them start out with; in November, I hated you Rich and I could not stand to come to class. I couldn’t stand to see you walk in a room, and now that I have my own classroom and I am in an environment with other teachers, I realize the importance of what you did. So, that is my reward for that, for the times that they don’t like me,