Serving Students: How To Show Them You Care

Graham Nuthall, in his text "The Hidden Lives of Learners", suggests that students already know 60% of what we're going to teach them.  🤯

When we're talking about teaching science concepts and skills, this is so hard to believe and should be saved for another discussion entirely!

But, if that statistic is remotely true, then how much might they possibly know -- or think they know -- about content that isn't so technical and specific?

I would propose that students observe, comprehend, and make inferences about all kinds of nonverbal cues in our classrooms.  (This is science, after all, and we're all doing it all the time!)

From our outward presentation through how we spend our time, students of any age can make grand, and often quick, judgements about us and how much we care about them and their learning.  

In this video, I present the question, "What if we open our minds to earning
mutual trust and respect instead of demanding it?".  This would require us to adopt a mentor mentality rather than an authoritative one in our science classrooms when working with our students.  

Together, we'll explore how an intentional lesson planning framework used in tandem with the definition of love can build trust and make every student feel equally valued in our classrooms.

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