Week 3 Reflection

This week I talked a lot of people. I commented on Josie’s blog about what DI could look like for adults and if it could work in higher education. Kendra and I talked about reflecting on our classrooms. I suggested that she might ask her students how they think everything is going. Kendra was not sure that would be a good idea. Her class is still in the first year of the transition and it tends to be the hardest year. I also chatted with Gerald about Wonderful Wednesdays and how that might work differently for high school students. It seems to me that parents of high school students are probably detoured from helping in high school classrooms because their children don’t want them to be there and/or they don’t think they have enough knowledge in that classroom.

               This week I thought a lot about what could change so that parents could be more involved in high school. It seems like it must come from the students themselves. I think that a lot of parents are more likely to help with after school activates. This is some interaction, but I’m not sure it’s enough. I have also been thinking about how I can make sure to reflect in my own classroom next year. If I am teaching in elementary school I would really like to try something like wonderful Wednesdays. Hopefully the district I work in does not require parents to have background checks like at Cherie’s school. I can see how this would be a good thing, but it also seems like it might take time and money that parents don’t have the time to deal with. I know it was hard for me to figure out how to get my background check and I don’t have kids or a full-time job.