Leadership Icebreaker

This exercise is always a fun component for the Leadership class... Students are put in charge for the first time in this class and lead an icebreaker "drill". Today they broke up into teams and began planning how they would implement it. Over the next two days the students will lead the rest of the class in the icebreaker. We will begin to see how they work as teams and who will emerge as leaders.

The teams are given a worksheet that helps them question how well they performed. It's the evaluative piece that gets them thinking about whether the icebreaker they chose was a good one and how they need to deliver some actual value to the classroom experience.

Have they learned everyone's names yet? That helps a lot. We will begin to see how this plays out over the next two days.

2nd day

Not that I plan to make a post each and every day, but two days in a row - now that's something for me...

So this is a quick post. Today I'll say the students were more in awe and not as squirrely at least for me.

I'm not sure why, but I tend to do well in this niche I've found at Euclid. Often I can diagnose a problem within seconds and I'm able to fix things that others have been stumped by simply by walking in the room (at least that's the impression I tend to leave LOL). At any rate it was one of those days where I was quite busy, tended to the problem(s) at hand and went on my way leaving them in "awe". That's always fun!

I know it sounds like I am boasting and I guess I am. The point I'm trying to make though is that I've found my little niche in the world here and it's wonderful for a person to find his/hers... It may be the most important aspect of doing a job day after day. I hope all of us can find our niche and make an impact however small (at least in my case right now) as it makes a job seem more rewarding.

So I'll leave you with that thought and move on. It was a good day.

First day back

Kids were squirrelly today. I hope this isn't a sign of the whole year. They were really chatty and not their usual reserved & respectful selves that I've seen in the past.

I watched our staff battle this all day long. Not sure if it was first day jitters on the part of the students or something else? Time will tell. As for me, my approach is to set a high standard and expect students to honor that. If they don't then school won't be nearly as fun as it could and learning will suffer.

Let's hope for a better day tomorrow.