Seeking Educational Council
Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas
Time
We are now just three months away from graduation. It is the end of the 2012- 2013 school year. It is time for end of year testing, evaluation, promotion, graduation, and/or retention. Soon the days will become longer as there will be more daylight. As educators time is coming to an end. The school year is closing, and stress can be created by the pressure of the end that is approaching, but there is still time. We have gone past the half-way mark of the school year. We are close to the 75% completion point, but that should also serve as a reminder that there is still 25% which has not yet happened.
We are now just three months away from graduation. It is the end of the 2012- 2013 school year. It is time for end of year testing, evaluation, promotion, graduation, and/or retention. Soon the days will become longer as there will be more daylight. As educators time is coming to an end. The school year is closing, and stress can be created by the pressure of the end that is approaching, but there is still time. We have gone past the half-way mark of the school year. We are close to the 75% completion point, but that should also serve as a reminder that there is still 25% which has not yet happened.
Council
As we begin to feel the pressure applied by the passing of time, and the changes that have taken place, in our places of learning, we should also feel the need, to seek council with our peers.
Seeking council should never be viewed as a failure or weakness, but rather an opportunity to exchange advice. Seeking council gives us a chance to present a concern and received advice on how best to solve it, as well as receiving concerns others may present to us, and counsel them on how best to solve them.
Seek Council
Talk regularly with your colleagues and meet with them specifically for the purpose of having a council. Choose a place and a time in which to have council, for example: Before school at a coffee house, during lunch in the cafeteria, after school in the library, or other time and place that is suitable to all participating in the council.
Talk about and brainstorm ideas that can be used to face the challenges that are present before us. The council can be used to create lessons, plan field trips, address basic skills, and review standard knowledge. Seeking council will also help create an environment of social interaction and friendship, as well as professional collaboration.
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