It has been said that we should "be kind, for everyone is fighting their own battle."
I must remind myself to always ask students to fill out a survey each year. From just a few simple questions, I have already learned so much about my students. I have learned some of their struggles, ways that I can connect with them, and what they are concerned about. As I mentioned in a previous post, we asked the students to fill out a survey on Google Forms. The responses automatically populate a spreadsheet that we can view, and it is constantly updated as students submit the form. Here are just a few of the responses we've received:
"I would love to be an engineer hopefully working for Union Pacific because my uncle works for them and he makes a great amount of money and has the most amazing life so I look up to him a lot and hope to be just like him ever since I was little."
"[My dream job is] A child's therapist because children go through very tough childhoods and I myself have had a little rough past and I find that if children have a safe place to talk. They will let out their feelings and it will help."
"I struggle with science because there is so much reading and memorizing equations."
"It takes me a long time to understand modern things, especially things like science and computers and I am not very smart I just work very hard for my grade and to learn."
"I really struggled in science in middle school"
"I want to be a teacher that helps dyslexic kids b/c I have dyslexia and I would love to shw [sic] them that you don't have to let it keep you down and you can do just as well as the other kids."
"I am an ELL student, and i just moved to this country almost 2 years ago."
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