The bravery

The bravery

Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I met a little girl named Lisa, who was suffering from a rare serious illness. Her only hope of cure was a blood transfusion and the donor was to be her own five-brother, who miraculously suffered the same disease and his body can devise antibodies needed to resist the disease. The doctor explained the situation to the boy and asked him if he would give his blood to his sister. I saw that he hesitated only a moment before answering:

- Yes, of course, if it can save Lisa.

No blood transfusion was going, he was lying on the couch next to his sister and smiled, as we all do, watching as the girl's cheeks will be flushed again. Then his face grew pale, his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and in a trembling voice asked:

- I die right now, yes?

While still very young, the boy misunderstood the doctor's words and decided that he will give his sister all his blood.

Dan Clark

STARFISH

STARFISH

One of our friend wandered once at sunset on a deserted Mexican beach. Ahead he saw a figure. Approaching, he saw a local resident, who now and then bending down, picking something from the sand and threw it into the ocean waves. This was repeated again and again, and when our friend approached even closer, it turned out that the person picking up starfish, made by the tide on the shore, and sent them to turn back into water.

Our friend was puzzled. Stopping beside him, he asked:

- Good evening, friend. Tyr What are you doing?

- Returns starfish back into the ocean. You see, now low tide, and they were on shore. If I do not return them to the sea, they die from lack of oxygen.

- I understand, - said our friend. - But on the beach of a thousand stars. It is unlikely that you will be able to reach each of them. There are too many. And besides, as you know yourself, the same happens on many beaches around the coast. Is it by your works can be any use?

In response, a local resident with a smile on her face bent down, picked up another star, threw it into the waves and said:

- The benefit is - at least one of the stars!
Helis Bridges

This assessment I dream at night ...

This assessment I dream at night ...

Recall your school received an assessment, which caused significant changes in you. Moreover, changes can be both positive and negative.

Think that had the greatest influence on the regulatory effect of this evaluation: its magnitude, the person evaluates the situation assessment, its equity invested labor, unexpected situation or its predictability ...

If you can, please give a few examples of the role of evaluation in your life. What could you advise those who revere the evaluation?

Also consider: currently most estimates put you or you? Which of these provisions you prefer and why? Talk about all of this with a companion.

Well, if playing the role of student, we feel responsible for the entire learning process. This gives an opportunity to display creativity in learning. It occurs when a student feels his independence, or at least the possibility of choice.

Playing the role of teachers, we love ... handle. But the real influence exerted by our people, and the scope of our real "power" does not depend on the strength of our pressure on the student.

The biggest impact of the teacher has, if the student chooses his own. It is also important, can the teacher make a personal example: that if he is a man with whom the student is ready to identify. Give a concrete example.

EXAMPLE

Since you need to give students tasks to consolidate the material. You can give them to meet 20 or 10 of these problems, while saying that "enough to solve 10 problems, but those who feel the strength, can do more."

You are not obliged to indicate the specific numbers challenges; enough to offer students such an example, the scheme: "You get a perfect score, if you apply one of the following strategies: you can solve a greater number of lung problems, or less difficult. Need to get a certain number of points."

In these examples, the choice makes the pupil. Believe me, he is well aware of and appreciates. He has the opportunity to feel like a co-author and success and defeat.

And there is nothing wrong, nothing disruptive, on the contrary, this process is accompanied by a feeling of inner freedom and responsibility for choices.

Did you ever experience this feeling as a student?

Choices demonstrates an example of reading textbooks. If there are so many alternative lists of literature, why the students themselves may not be chosen from the list of those works that they like more? " Here, too, can use the scoring system and the difficulties of the text.

The benefits of reading on their own "Romeo and Juliet" will certainly be greater than the effect of units received for unread imposed on the teacher's novel "What to do?".

Try to bring their examples of this phenomenon, right?

It should also focus on the role of the teacher in the educational process.

I'll tell you a parable about a little Marusya

I'll tell you a parable about a little Marusya

One girl came to school and was very happy painting, because adored draw. The teacher told the children to draw a tree. A minute later on a sheet of paper appeared sweeping strokes. The teacher went to class and commented on the work of their wards. When she went to Marusya, the girl has almost completed its work. The teacher looked up and asked reproachfully: "Maroussia, do not you know, looks like a tree?" I never have seen purple trees! ". A Maroussia, without hesitation, she exclaimed: "Really?" How I feel for you ... "

What does this parable? Of course, the role of feelings of self-worth.

I hope you understand it well. I also think that any teacher would have a handy experience - it saves people from being able to take their opinions infallible. I wish us all the talent and confidence of small Marousi. It is not insolent - be it so, its aim was to provoke the teacher embarrassment and confusion, and then she recklessly "attacked" a teacher. But Maroussia protected naive and so masterfully. She understands that is entitled to his own imagination, which is no worse than others.

Do you have shown independence and confidence in response to the opinion of others about your "creation"? Why do you answer a friend, admire your dress: "Oh, it's so old ..." Why tell the visitor, who praises your culinary talents that do not know how to cook? This - not modesty. This is - nonsense. If you do not like the dress, why do you wear it? If you do not know how to cook, what serves their other products? Learn from small Marousi.

We constantly put the assessment. It is compulsory on the role of the student. Are we

when we learn, give consent, for someone to have appraised? Can we, the

born, and if this is a fight against windmills? What in general should

live score and what it really is? What is its impact on the perception of their own

value and self-esteem?

"I received the first pair in the first grade reading. For me this" two great hit from his father. Since then I battered by his father after each control, as instruments of punishment were all the more delicious ... "

"In high school I started having problems with concentration. In the second and

third grade, they have intensified. Going to the board, I thought that the teacher called me to humiliate. I saw a teacher of the enemy, felt that he wanted to show my ignorance, but because looking for, what do I do not know, and hit the weak spot. I had a feeling that all teachers want to prove that they know best. I felt humiliated. I was afraid of teachers. "

Evaluation can serve an objective criterion only in certain cases. When the teacher note the time in the race for some distance, he uses a stopwatch, but you can not imagine how different it measures the speed of those to he ... nurtures sympathy or antipathy. Moreover, it does not have to be willful or intentional, though, alas, sometimes happens. Well, when the score becomes the student feedback as information about its current level of knowledge and skills, as well as on progress. In art schools, progress is assessed regularly. The true evaluation should include an analysis of errors that students know their weaknesses and was able to correct them. Regulatory evaluation function should not hinder the activity of the student and encourage her. Dear Teacher Not so important, what mark you set. Important changes that it causes a particular individual. Evaluation - is not a measurement of height and weight; is a subtle process of sending back information, which is designed to stimulate the development of personality.

It should be remembered that the same score, set by two different people, cause they have a different echo. One insanely happy triplet-minus, the other suffers, having "only" four.

EXAMPLES

a high school student was fond of saying that he "cut off the top five," because the high score was his standard.

Pupil and school finds success as satisfactory, because it "threatened" deuce.

If a task is executed in a test 50%, it is a success or failure?

About student of the prestigious Lyceum attempt suicide as a result of voltage after the final control. In the control he had received "satisfactory".

With another student school in the same city, receiving the same score, leaving for a journey abroad - a gift to the happy parents.

No points and points are riveted our attention, and their influence on the behavior of the student. Ironically, when the teachers themselves say they do not notice any reaction from the student, whom they put so many twos ... Let's look at it another way. If some means is not effective, why use it again and again, repeating the senseless attempts? Is not it called fixation? Similarly, the case with the higher grades. They often, generating indifference, exposed, according to the students themselves, "for nothing", or rather for the fact that quick learner performs the task without much effort, and therefore does not make any steps forward in its development.

In the estimation of reflected our need for comparisons. Think about what the essence of the dialogue below:

- Well, as you perform the test?

- Received 80 points, and you?

- I - 75, but the average was only 60.

Every year, many students in any university has the opportunity to see how much the assessment of our intelligence and abilities depends on comparison with others. Students who are in high school were considered "outstanding talent" (as compared with classmates), unpleasantly surprised to find that suddenly became "mediocre". Moreover, half of them were below average compared with their new "exceptionally talented" classmates. Obviously, that has changed is not their intellectual level, and the criteria for comparison. IQ equal to 120, compared with the average is considered high. But in a specially selected group it may be secondary or even lower.