Driving my Journey

Hello all and welcome to another captivating week in the life of Mr. Hatcher. This week we all learned and read about the 9 passions.... That's right, the PASSIONS. The passions that drive the journey. :) In these passions we looked at them and manipulated our thoughts based on what way we would or could use action research to have a better understanding of all things. I think after reading Dana's book I've realized just how important surveying the individual student is. Not only surveying them, but actually doing something with that data. I quoted Socrates in this weeks assignment and love the quote, thus I will share it with you just in case you have never seen it.....
. “Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.” –Socrates 450 B.C

The reason for sharing this quote is that my deeply rooted thoughts of understanding students becomes more and more prevalent every time I read it. It was also validated even  more by reading Dana this week. We as educators must some way find out what is driving students and what they like best. This way hopefully we can somehow get out of the dreaded ways that our youth have acted, learned, and thought for the last 2462 some odd years.....