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Assignment:
1. Try to remember a teacher you had an elementary, middle, or high school that you felt created a safe, supportive environment and whom you admire as an educator. What were the characteristics is teacher possessed that enabled her or him to be successful and to be remembered by you as an excellent teacher?
2. We encourage you to put the book aside for a moment and create four columns headed by the four components you describe by Nodding. In each column, list five specific to teacher behaviors or classroom activities you use (or would like to use) to develop each of these components of moral education based on caring.
3. Write and share with a colleague a brief statement about a situation in which you believe you demonstrated (1) an appropriate amount of self-disclose that contributes to developing a positive relationship with students or a group of students, (2) too much openness or self-disclosure, (3) a failure to share about yourself in a way that may have assisted a student, (4) an appropriate amount of interest in a student understand that you valued and cared about him or her, and (5) too much intrusion into or involvement with a student's life.
4. Stop for a minute and make a list of what you or a teacher with whom you are working or observing has done to get to know a student. If you are not teaching, consider ways your own teacher learned about who you were.
5. We encourage you to stop for a few minutes and write one example of each of these types of statements- intentionally disinviting, unintentionally disinviting, intentionally inviting, and unconventionally inviting- based on something you have heard a staff member (including yourself) say to a student.
What method will you choose to ensure you are communicating high expectations to all students?