Neat experience

I started working at a new school three months ago and it has been a whirlwind of experiences and emotions, as these kind of changes often are! Anyway Tuesday was an interesting experience. My principal stopped by in my class, pulled up a chair and had a seat. I found this slightly unnerving, certainly the unexpected nature of the visit was the main reason for this. To add to the unnerving nature of the experience she then proceeded to pull out a pen and write. So it went for a while with her looking around the room listening to me run a discussion about the Cold War. After about 20 minutes she stood back up walked to the front of my class and left a card on my desk. In the end it turned out to be one of the nicest visits ever paid by a principal to any of my classes. A really nice card with all sorts of wonderful comments from her visit. It struck me that while indeed there are things that could have been improved in my class, she decided to only mention the positives. What an interesting idea, so often we look for the problems and the things that need improvement, I felt pretty good after a few compliments. It reminded me that I need to make sure to tell all of my students what I appreciate about them more often. There's always time for improvement, we just need to make sure we appreciate the positives that so many students bring to us. In addition if I should ever be in a position where I am dealing with others. If you want to build a positive work environment, I guess you need to be positive!

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