Blog Post #6 HJ Bennett

"What the teacher didn't know" page 98 describes an opportunity for professional development via student input. Campano lists the following questions such as:

• When was there a productive atmosphere? 

• Why would a student adopt an oppositional stance toward school? 

• When did school require the students to compromise or deny an aspect of of who they felt they were?

Students were asked to share their feelings about classroom management. What better way to learn how one is viewed then from the mouths of our students? As educators we must take care to avoid conflict, social critique and intercultural miscommunication as suggested by Campano.

I do view my students as individuals from whom I have the distinct pleasure of watching the majority of them mature over a four year period either as my students or passers-by in the vast hallways. My thoughts of these young adults who are shaped by "both personal and group history" coincides with Campano's.  I feel strongly that student behaviors are "rational responses to unjust situations" reflected by their passions and interests.  I am witness to the youthful quest for independence  best described as a search for knowledge and identity in every day lives.