Saturday, July 19, 2008

Welcoming Words


"Come in. I've been waiting for you."


A woman in the nail salon repeated these words that a teacher had said to her students many years ago The teacher never reprimanded them for being late or sent them out for a pass. She just showed joy at their arrival. The kids learned to not only show up on time, but to be early.


Too bad my school does not believe in this policy. I only yell at my students for being late if there is an administrator in the room. The kids know I don't mean to yell. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all treat our students this way.

1 comment:

CaliforniaTeacherGuy said...

Thank you for these words of welcome. I shall adopt them as my own and use them with with my students this year!

Everyone needs to be welcomed.