You sure are lucky.
posted by Sarah @ 8:07 AM
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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- You sure are persistent.
- There you go again
- This is going to be hard
- Do you want me to help or do you want more time?
- Hurry up.
- I want you to help me solve my problem.
- Every problem has a solution.
- I know you can handle it.
- Sounds like you have a problem.
- Why did you do that?
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I found this section very enlightening. I think we all know people that appear to lead charmed lives. Everything tends to go their way and they are always in the right place at the right time. I gave luck credit for their success. It never dawned on me that they were responsible for their own success.
Gail's comment reminds me so much of the training we had the last two days with Lee Jenkins. If the kids take control and chart their successes they will be able to feel the power they have over their own decisions and know it is not just luck. I would so like to see students make more decisions for themselves. I'm going to try harder not to be the director and be more of a coach.
I think I would like an outline of the training y'all went to. So many times I catch myself dwelling only on the failures,never the successes.
I think a good use for "you lucked out on that one" is when you hear a story from a student about getting away with something or avoiding consequences.
The importance of crediting them for their effort I think is huge. It goes along with the idea of saying what you want or expect rather then what you don't. Then with every success we all can celebrate!!
This section really made you think. I tend to use Wow, you sure are lucky!
I never thought of it as they were responsible for their successes.
Hey, luck exists. Pull a name out of a hat, the lottery, any game of chance is luck. The difference is that you have no control over luck. Having control or at least influence over an outcome is not luck. I think it would be a good discussion actually, and teach a valuable concept. You could adapt it to any grade level and empower your students.
So true, Jo. I think many students (and adults) have never thought of the difference between the two--luck and creating your successes. This would also be a good time to pull in the importance of attitude. What's that quote? Something like, "Life is 10% what happens and 90% how I react to it."
Guilty, guilty, guilty........I find that when I tell my students something is easy it takes away the hesitation to learn something new. I need to change this and use I think your ready for this and let them have the responsibility for their own decisions and successes.
For the last several years I have worked at dropping the language of luck from my vocabulary. Especially, when I receive something that I did not deserve, or work for. In those instances I give God the credit and say that I am blessed. However, in the classroom we often see students who have obviously squeaked by and finished a long term project at the last minute. Perhaps we could say something like this to them "You showed persistence and discipline to accomplish all of that in such a short time period, think what you could have accomplished if you had started a little earlier".
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