tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562434481622970063.post3084907136014271923..comments2014-09-20T20:29:52.697-04:00Comments on Notes on the whiteboard: Never work harder than your students, Cha. 1JohnCosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08757966427479390484noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562434481622970063.post-53146145293538942072009-02-20T15:55:00.000-05:002009-02-20T15:55:00.000-05:00I started this a week and a half ago and have lost...I started this a week and a half ago and have lost my train of thought and where I was headed but felt you deserved some type of comment. Thanks for informing us of your reading and thoughts. Anyhow here are my thoughts I had saved to a file about your blog from chapter 1. <BR/><BR/>I am not sure I follow the currency theory but I do get the idea of having different values. When I was coaching basketball we would spend an enormous amount of time on this subject with the student-athletes. As a coach I always wondered why the kids didn't want to win as badly as I did. Winning to me was important and how can you not have a passion for something that you are practicing for 2 hours five days a week. The answer was that these kids had many other reasons for playing; wanted to have fun (ironically this is the main reason kids play sport), be a part of a team, mom or dad told them they had to, it is what everyone does, it is expected (the norm), and a few other reasons. Because I didn't understand their reasons for playing I didn't understand why they didn't put the effort in to becoming the best at the sport. We had different values. For example, if a parent buys a car for a child, the child will often times takes less care of the vehicle and races around with it because they didn't have to work for it. On the other hand if a kids has to get a job in order to get a car they tend to take better care of it and seem to create a value for the meaning of work. If a teacher has a passion for their discipline or content area and have paid large sums of money to earn the knowledge they then have a different value for the subject. Students don’t have the investment and therefore don’t carry the currency. I guess the trick is how do we get them to invest and create the value.Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10801451348746147978noreply@blogger.com