Love is contagious. And inspiring.
And my students? I could at least set aside impediments to loving them, and I could offer them such love as they could accept. To do this, I would have to start by banishing fear — my fear of judgments by my colleagues, along with my fear that students might try to cheat or lie to me. I began to trust my students. I stopped reading letters from doctors attesting to students’ needs. I told the students, simply, that I would believe whatever they told me.
Hard quizzes sometimes scare students, but that does not necessarily lead to better learning. Now, in place of quizzes, I developed challenging open-book group exercises. These were graded as hard as the quizzes, but most students looked forward to them. They enjoyed connecting with one another, and they liked the opportunity to express their views to one another.
As I recognized their growing pleasure in one another and in the subject, I began to like my students better and better. I had found what I wanted — a way to set up my classroom that invited me to love my students. In this month of Valentine’s Day, let’s try to apply Cicero’s advice to ourselves. About those we deal with in our work, let’s try to banish fear from our own hearts and instill love in its place.
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