I was at a meeting yesterday when we discussed several million dollar questions:
- How do we get the students to work as hard as the teachers?
- Specifically, what can we do as a school/teaching staff to create an environment where students will move themselves from "don't-ers" to "do-ers" (don't do what they should to do what they should)?
- How can we motivate students on a wider scale than one-on-one? Or even one-on-thirty?
I wish I could say that we came up with million-dollar answers to these questions. What I can say is that we started a dialogue about solutions. In my small group, we established critera for what these solutions would do. Some groups started brainstorming a few ways we could start doing these things.
Overall, my take-away is that there is no million-dollar answer. It takes time and effort, and it always will take time and effort. No one activity or action or process will work. It's going to take a multi-faceted approach that is constantly revised and tweaked. And what works here may not work on our other campus or at any other school. It's about knowing your kids, and trying and trying and trying until you find something that works.
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