Each class has its own level of tolerance. Relationships between pupils, too, are formed differently. It happens that some of them are rejected, isolated. Well, when the structure of the class there are many positions that you can take in accordance with their abilities.

Exercise 4. Your class was like ...

And in fact, what was your class? Try to first select an object for reflection, because in the process of learning students often have time to change a few classrooms. Choose the one that (subjectively, of course) was the most important to you.

Try to make a simple diagram of this small, formal social group. Use with the scheme and the notation given in the previous journal.

Check all of whom, remember, label them relationships, distance, boundaries of individual coalitions. Arrows Designate a communication strategy and direction "strokes".

Has your class functionality (for "cases and thoughts, and emotional (support) leaders? Was employed by someone place" scapegoat "Do not forget the role of the clown, as well as classmates, stand out. And what role in the class you played yourself?

Now try to play metaphors ( "Our class was like ...". not comment on an association, just burn them or slander on a dictaphone. It would be interesting to implement this part of the exercise with a group of your classmates. In this case you would be able to compare their perception and evaluation of the past. Remember that a successful metaphor must consist of at least two words: the adjective and noun (eg "My class was like a closed cell, the military training ground, weedy garden bed ...".

I wish you good fun and beneficial pastime.

Each class is part of a larger education - school - school. This is the educational establishment have written hundreds of pages, which reveal an interesting pattern: all - teachers, parents, children - seeking better, but for some unknown reason they often fail to achieve success together ... X. Rilke said: "The meetings with children, and then observing them in class adopted me in opinion: something is wrong. Those same children - energetic, intelligent, sympathetic, in informal conversations and meetings - on the lessons become apathetic, poglupevshimi , inhibited, or joined in the fight for his position and sympathy of teachers ".

Young people, performing the role of students perceive the reality of acute and mature. They see that the school provides an assessment of their behavior and personality, creates the need for subordination, requires a willingness to get on with the authorities. For many of them school - a hopeless situation, such a prison, a barracks or a psychiatric hospital ... Fortunately, these people are able to estimate that the school teaches us to adapt. In adult life they will be able to actively use the techniques that are captured here. They say that it is better to learn to control yourself, than to live under glass, and then be "thrown into life." What do you therefore think about studying in the alternative schools - private schools, for which the student pays, which means that all his actions must be approved? Is not it creates the same problem?

Exercise 5. Charming memories of my school

Invite friends who attended the same school as you, best of all - in high school.

Try to remember as much as possible. Make a list of your teachers describe school buildings, classrooms, hallways, locker rooms, even ... toilets.

Ask your friends what your school has helped them learn, and that - made it difficult to study? Who, in their view, was close to the role of an ideal student? And who did not conform to this role? What's in your school was considered a success, and that - a failure? Did the school or the students emphasized the unity of the individual differences between them, and perhaps unify the people (or at least their behavior)?

The conversation should take place in a pleasant atmosphere, without the hectic recording, but then must compile the memories, thoughts and judgments. I believe that you are able to do.

Conduct a short interview, the main purpose of which will receive an answer to the question: what to teach you a school student and how it was you yourself.