One To Grow On-Prologue

one to grow on a new set of tools developed by the National Institute of Mental Health to stimulate thinking about mental health issues related to teacher student interaction in the classroom the idea for this program grew out of the basic concern of parents teachers and mental health workers for helping the student in the process of personal growth a teacher who is sensitive to The Young Person's needs feelings and interests and who understands his own potential as the shaper of classroom experiences can provide important help classroom mental health holds the potential for enhancing every child's ability to develop his humanness skill in decision- making self- understanding and a sense of responsibility one to grow on is a series of six films with print materials designed as a catalyst a core of Impressions and data around which personal and Collective problems can be discussed and solution suggested the first film in the series is a documentary study of three uniquely different high school students in a single history class each participates with his own special set of motives needs and values oh I like history as a subject pretty much I don't like the teacher he gives uh assignments that most of them are strictly opinion and uh I don't see how he can really it I don't think there's I'm positive there's not a right answer or a wrong answer here I like the facts you know just the straight facts Mike was a person with lots of leadership and he proved that by being able to make senior patrol leader he helped other boys in in scouting so that they were able to advance I think I told you I had his name down wrong in the RO book I had it spelled l a y m o r and for weeks I called him by by the wrong name and he never even corrected me he has uh love of country love of God and love of family I just think he's a good boy I don't know do you think the one of the answers before that were given was it or well let try up uh well I don't know I answer no wor he just doesn't uh have a great deal of interest in what's going on his outside life really has so much more glamour to it they uh spot you like in baseball you know and then they sponsor you you know usually like if someone sponsors you you know you that means you're going to be uh around motorcycles for a pretty long time you know but basically I just feel that I just want him to do what he wants to do and be happy maybe I'm just being too lenient with them I really don't know if there's 100% turnout in all of the states a person can have a majority of electoral votes by taking 19.7% of the popular vote I asked about the signing of the Declaration of Independence people who had signed the Declaration and I the textbook I expect every kid in the class to put down John Hancock and he put down Button Gwinnett of whom I've never heard well that's mod sick they're all the same oh mod yeah anytime he's interested in anything we got Library research it and we uh let him go on tours he had a tour around the United States and anything at all that's within our means that will help in his stimulation I like the lunch periods at the math club I like that very much but uh I don't know about school I don't I don't have any feelings I don't think about it 50.1% in all of the smallest states up to 270 electoral votes yeah if our system could be I mean you understand what he said following are two dramatic incidents presenting specific problems confronting teenagers in their struggle to understand themselves and their relationships with their school and home environments well what am I supposed to do what am I supposed to do accept your own responsibility I don't believe you're doing acting responsibility I don't believe that Sirah I'm going to suspend you take this into the yotter office fill it out take it home and have your parents sign it I'll go to that class before my parents will ever find out you understand this would this would destroy them maybe I can do something I'll try we let Sarah get away with this with be setting a very dangerous precedence he can't assume responsibility for the child's action well the problem was all solved last Friday and I can assure you that she's promised me and I trust her and she will go to class regularly from now on they just well I hate this is so cliche but uh they don't understand me sex is a big responsibility young lady and going to B until we discuss this do you hear me now I'm your mother look Lindsay this is the second day that you stayed after school you keep looking at me very directly in the eyes now I'm sitting here with you and I'm available to you if there's something you want to tell me or ask me there's really nothing I think it's just a phase at the moment I think all parents must be going through a phase like this there's nothing really to be con concerned about you know the last three documentaries present classroom techniques and models it is understood that there is no one set of answers to help all teachers but that effective use of such techniques must grow out of a shared need felt by both teacher and student I've been teaching for 15 years and I find that uh my classroom is much less structured now than it was when I first started teaching I uh well as a result of the class meetings I think I listen to the needs of the children more I did too come up here Mor and show us exactly what happened then like what was accomplished by acting out the F what I was was trying to show the rest of the class is that this didn't accomplish very much they one pushing the other and the other pushing back and I think I was just using that as an example for the other children to come up with some ideas you all come all by yourself why all the kids go this way and I go straight which way do you go straight I'll go straight would you like to walk home with Jetta okay so you have somebody to walk home with okay I think as a result of our class meetings she began to realize that the children in our room were genuinely interested in helping her and I think she began to feel that the children were really trying to be her friends since I'm blind you know you can't put up your hands today uh you couldn't last time but you did figure out a way of getting my attention by saying uh something like all or um just say my name you can say my name say Mr leono um any of you remember uh one of the things we talked about that you do when you teach somebody else something what did you do to we did discuss that you had to control yourself because you might get a little bit frustrated right the person didn't learn what you wanted them to what is it disuss this what if the person doesn't learn something the same way you want to teach it somebody back there well you have to teach him the way that they do it because like things might have changed and they might have done it a different way baby dinosaurs were hatched from eggs it's a baby reg you are such a good [Music] reader in our classroom we have a system that we call Alpha and Omega myse the children in Omega are plan their day more or less the children in Alpha do not plan their day they must go along with our plans being an alpha means there's a schedule in the wall and that your time is structured for you what do you want for yourself as as a member of Al get into Omega a child in Omega can plan their own day for the most part realizing they have certain obligations every day everybody writes down what they did and they put it in their book cuz like if it if see if if like Spelling's not down and then we know we have to dis spell it for a child to learn self-direction is the most important thing because if they don't have that then we're brainwashing children they've got to be able to go their own learning way more time is spent with children and parents by teachers than by any other professional group in many instances the teacher is representative of the community for the child the school therefore has the potential to help a child understand his and others dependencies feelings fears and Joy these films will find their value as discussion tools reminding us that every experience whether it be intense conflict or the shared Joy of learning something new can be one to grow on e