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Who I Am 

Here is a statement that I see as  having a precise application in my teaching environment:

Every year I have all the students in my classes create “Who I Am” posters and present them to the entire class at the beginning of the year. It includes sharing their strengths, worries, love, and their hopes and dreams — along with other information. I also do a model presentation.

Every year I’m struck by two things:

• that the students in my English Language Learner classes have very high “hopes and dreams” for themselves and their lives after high school.
• that most of my mainstream students say the same “hope and dream” — “I want to pass this class.”

It’s disconcerting to me that so many of them have “hopes and dreams” at such a low level — not about a potential career, and not even wanting to do more than “pass the class” (even though most are doing exceptional class work).
Even though I ‘ve tried to have conversations with students about why they seem to have such low-expectations of themselves, I’ve never been successful in trying to get to the bottom of it.
Now, I’m thinking that even though I can’t seem to find-out the “why” of the issue, there must be something I can do to systematically during the year try to help students develop and articulate a broader vision for themselves.
I’m still trying to figure out how to do it, and would welcome suggestions about what you think I can do, as well as your thoughts about the likely causes of the low-expectations.

[The above is from a blogby Larry Ferlazzo, a teacher in Sacramento]

   Table practice....

1: A statistical perspective of goals (hypothetical)

Gender	High	Medium	Low
Boys	5	4	7
Girls	7	4	6

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(: Not a discrepancy -- open in wiki text view and you will see that syntax comparison is not identical :-) --Wayne Mackintosh 02:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC) )

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