at my school (and probably at many other schools) the 11th grade is known for being the year to worry about. they get a lot more work and a lot less help from the teachers. it's also the year most students start to realize how their actions over the past two years will affect the kind of college they'll get into.
my advisees are in 11th grade and they've been pretty tense. and so have i. so i thought we would tackle this during our meeting this week.
i gave them 5 minutes to list everything that was on their minds. the worries ranged from getting a boyfriend to the red sox record to the health of parents. then we chose three worries we thought other people might share and wrote them on post-its. see the worry list above. i had made these charts beforehand and we categorized our post-its into things we can work on now, things we can put on the back-burner for now, and things we have no power to change.
i hope this made an impact on them. they spend a lot of time worrying about teachers they don't like and sat's...things that just can't be changed. i want them to start to make the things they have control over a priority.
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This is a great idea. I'm going to do something similar with my advisory, and with myself.
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