Take 5 minutes each day to connect with your students. This disciplined approach helps you understand your students and how to best serve them.
Gary Chapman’s book The Five Love Languages of Children presents how children speak their love language (I have taken the editorial liberty of changing “child” to “student”). He suggests:
- Observe how your students express love to others. Listen “between the lines” to what your students request most often.
Listen to your students’ most frequent complaints. When you stop to consider their whining and grumbling, the results may surprise you. Their complaints may fall into a category corresponding with one of the love languages.
Give your students choices.
There is no question that teaching students is a sacrificial act of service; but, when that service is expressed from the heart that is bathed with Aloha, it reaffirms, liberates, empowers and energizes. Who would have thought acts of service could be so transforming?
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