This is the 6th Girl Guides Camp in my teaching life and the highlights of the camp is not the camp itself.
And as I was bathing and reflecting over it, I thought my secondary teachers gave us alot of autonomy in deciding what we want to do, and in today's standards, probably would have failed many segments of RAMS. Those were the days... That said, safety should never be compromised, but being overly uptight on every single thing kills all the opportunities for the students to grow and lead.
Owell... And this little parable shared by Pathlight's principal got me pondering on our focus as educators.
A little boy was playing at the pond. He saw a dead frog and he was overcome by grief. He said to his father, "Can we give him a funeral?" Then he spent a whole day and alot of effort to come up with an elaborate funeral. As he was done, he saw the frog moving its limbs. A while later, it was jumping with life. The little boy was upset and angry. He went over to ask his father, "Dad, don't you think we should kill it?"
The highlight of the camp were, the glitches the girls committed and how they bonded over solving the problems. If we were to focus on how they tarnished the CCA's reputation, how they could have landed the teacher's into trouble, how they had been irresponsible, then how different are we from the little boy?
And as I was bathing and reflecting over it, I thought my secondary teachers gave us alot of autonomy in deciding what we want to do, and in today's standards, probably would have failed many segments of RAMS. Those were the days... That said, safety should never be compromised, but being overly uptight on every single thing kills all the opportunities for the students to grow and lead.
Owell... And this little parable shared by Pathlight's principal got me pondering on our focus as educators.
A little boy was playing at the pond. He saw a dead frog and he was overcome by grief. He said to his father, "Can we give him a funeral?" Then he spent a whole day and alot of effort to come up with an elaborate funeral. As he was done, he saw the frog moving its limbs. A while later, it was jumping with life. The little boy was upset and angry. He went over to ask his father, "Dad, don't you think we should kill it?"
The highlight of the camp were, the glitches the girls committed and how they bonded over solving the problems. If we were to focus on how they tarnished the CCA's reputation, how they could have landed the teacher's into trouble, how they had been irresponsible, then how different are we from the little boy?
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