Instruction
As educational practitioners invested in your own professional growth, I will not impose a minimum or maximum length for your weekly reflections. Rather, I am asking that you engage with the question in a meaningful way and be honest, reflective, and thoughtful in your writing. I am entrusting you to allow the question and your own sense of professionalism to inform the length of your response. In anticipation of conflict...yes, there are instances where one does not possess professionalism and that will inform that individual's choices. Additionally, other than respond to questions in a list format, read through them all and take a more holistic approach. I am less interested in a bullet-point list of questions and answers than I am interested in presenting you with a set of questions all connected by a theme. Identify that theme and allow that to guide your writing as opposed to making a list. With personal reflective writing like this, there isn't so much a wrong answer so much as there are answers that failed to embrace the reflective nature of the task.
Entry 4 topic -Last week I asked you to have a conversation with a student. Now is your time to share what you've learned. Let me begin by stressing the need for confidentiality. So, identify this student using a pseudonym but avoid use of the student's actual name. That said:
tell me about the student
why did you choose to focus on this individual
share strengths and challenges this student faces..address both social and academic strengths and challenges (if there are other relevant challenges...like physical ones...address those as well
talk about the student's interactions in the class and relationship with the teacher
tell me about the teacher's response to the student's needs
what would you like to be your next steps in developing a relationship with this student..be sure to explain why you think this course of action is most fitting
feel free to share any other relevant observations and/or considerations at it relates to this individual