Archive for: ’frustration’
90 Percent of my Time
Published by collinsd under Awareness, Core Routines. Tags: frustration, mentor, minority, relationship building, relationships, techniques, youth.
The saying “we spend 90% of our time on 10% of our students” came up again.
And my response was different this time.
Every other time I’ve been at a workshop, or a session, or a meeting and this statement came up I felt anger growing. It gave my frustration a place to hang. What have I been doing wasting so much time on so few? There certainly must be something be wrong if things are not more equal. Why should the minority demand such a large amount of my time and effort.
Working Through Frustration
Published by collinsd under Learning Cycle. Tags: adaptation, aggression, boundaries, east, frustration, learning cycle, south, southeast, stuck.
The transition from East to South in the learning cycle is where I see many students get stuck. In between these two is Southeast. This is the place where the person is trying to find a way to move from the feeling of initiative to getting the work done. I’ve looked for strategies to assist this transition. Part of the problem is trying to understand why the person is stuck.
During a presentation at a recent Outreach Conference I heard Cameron Buchanan speak.
