WEEK 6 (4): IDEAS INTO ACTION


Ideas into Action

  1. What are 2-3 ways you can put ideas from this course into action with your students or your teaching teams?

As for my students, I think that there are many aspects that are important to work in class: empathy is something we need so much as a country. We first need to be thankful for what we have so we can then understand those who lack things. Lots of reflection making in class. It is difficult to understand when you have not been in that position; I can understand it because I have, but those who haven't may not be able to. It is actually hard work, but I believe it also starts with identification, with feeling that you belong, if you don't feel included, if you don't feel you belong you don't care, you don't feel like helping, you don't see what matters, because it is not yours, because they are not your people, etc. Big challenge ahead to transform the country, we need to start transforming the classroom, parents need to start transforming their houses. 
If I want to do these with my students, I need to work with my team at work to set common goals and together work on techniques to meet these goals. We need to set goals to make people better people, to make people feel they belong, to make people more empathetic, to make ourselves better people too, better listeners, better collaborators. 

2. Have you put any ideas from this course into action into any other area of your life besides the classroom/work context? Would you be willing to share or explain? 

 I have started working on projects I have putting teams together. I used to like to work alone, I have opened to work with teams now, I still struggle to find the right teams since I tend to be a bit demanding (armor) looking for people to think or have a similar vision. I am beginning to see this is probably not taking me anywhere and need to accept other visions. 

I am also being more flexible on my kids' behavior, letting them be, always with boundaries in which respect is the key, but I am trying to let them develop their strengths and find ways to make them realize they are good at so many things but also to focus their attention to the ones they are better at and in which they are happier. Not because I'd like them to be like this or that, but because they do. It is tough to help them discover and realize but I am taking the challenge and in doing so I have noticed they all have artistic skills they love working on. My oldest daughter is a musician, and she's always been involved in it. But my little girl has discovered she has a passion for water painting and she's doing incredible paintings now and my soon is a cartoon super hero lover, comics are his thing, he has started working on cartoon drawing and is loving every second. 

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