This is absolutely correct AND teachers are bombarded with the message that if a parent's child does not like school or finds it boring, it's a problem for the teacher to fix. It so often seems that the real challenge at hand is convincing parents their child is a child; nothing more, nothing less.
I agree that this is often the case. However, I also think that knowing a student is bored or doesn’t like school is important data 4 a tchr to know using a ‘data informed’ approach, & that a fair number of times there r actions teachers can take to respond to it
For sure! I appreciate this point from Angela which gets at some of that: bsky.app/profile/ange...
I've been deliberately folding this sort of identity work into lesson, unit, and K-12 curriculum design. Not "share your identity" but "hmw use this experience to curate identity capital?" and then, "HMW use that capital to consider our strengths and needs and fit in other contexts?"
(My personal Mandela effect is that there was an episode of "Kate and Allie" where Allie gave Chip a whole big lecture on how there's nothing wrong with just being ordinary. That ordinary is fine and good and nothing to be ashamed of. I'd love to find that clip.)
Been reading and learning much about identity capital in recent weeks, and it gave me great hope. We can learn how to build identity capital in every single context we find ourselves in--chosen or not. If we're self-aware, even things we find boring help us build this capital. Makes us scrappy.
"Scrappy" is a great word!
Also, hi Jenn! It's still pretty quiet here, eh?
I think it comes down to your feed and who you follow. Takes a bit more work here to curate - as it were - a noisier place.
I need to try harder. Just blowing the dust off...
Yeah, Zac was talking about this w/me last week. Reminded me: In their unpredictable industry, they have to constantly build identity capital w/intention. Said he had a few Ts who taught him how, explicitly.Made him more open-minded and creative. Able to learn in any context. Constraint=creativity.
I would love to read more about this! Any tips?
Sure-- I'll write a short series of open posts over the next couple of weeks and share here. One big, quick 💡is it's not just about knowing your current self and identity well and Ts being responsive, but intentionally using learning experiences (even those we don't choose) to shape with intention.