Self Esteem

This week in tech we cadets we focused on making our pots and personalizing them. A lot of us got very creative with our pots and I love seeing how much effort everyone put into the project. The idea of our pots came from the article: The Pot Nobody Watches by Virginia Satir which makes an analogy of self esteem to a pot that can be filled with different things by different people. What is in your pot depends on how people in your life treat you and how you value yourself. The article goes on to explain how critical it is for children to have high pots and how we, as teachers can achieve this with our students through verbal and nonverbal cues.




In the middle of the week mrs. Poole came to speak with us about the course and what assignments we would have to do as well as introduce us to the core of the class. She also talked about herself and what we need to do as teachers. We mainly focused on the first quarter project which is our autobiography. She explained how we need to really go the extra mile in our work as well as brag on ourselves and highlight our achievements. For me it also made the point that as teacher cadets we are the best of the best and how much we have managed to achieve to be accepted into the class. I'm glad she did that because I feel that a lot of us downplay our successes or worry about not being good enough when in reality were already above and beyond where we need to be.


And finally on Friday we discussed the article The Self Esteem Fraud by Nina H. Shokraii in small groups. We went over discussion questions and assessed how we feel self esteem should be addressed in the classroom. It was cool to hear everyone's different ideas and perspectives on how it should be addressed. It also emphasized how,as teachers, we are such an important part of children's lives.