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Originally posted by M. Krass
Among those groups, teachers and students sometimes have the hardest time getting along -- particularly when students want to make as much of their experience in FIRST as they can and the teachers are interested in maintaining a clear hierarchy of power and decision-making.
Question of the Week 10-26-03: What methods can we employ to tip the balance back toward the center? How can the students get their teachers to realize that the kids are still around -- and what can students do to respect the authority of their teachers while taking an active role in FIRST?
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I don't really have ideas on methods or theories, but this question reminds me of a story.
Season 2002 I wasn't volunteering on the team. However at the So Cal Regional a mother asked me to help get her son chosen to go on the trips. I mentioned it to the Administrator in charge, who, understandably (now that I know what that's like) was a bit exasperated and exclaimed the student had hardly been at meetings.
2003 I got involved. I got to know that student. He has turned out to be a MOST VALUABLE Team Member. He gets along well with students and mentors alike. He constantly, consistently, produces for the team year round and even when he's not at meetings.
He was a sophomore for Season 2003, he's a junior in high school this season. He's designed our Gracious Professionalism Poster, just posted our
2004 web , designed buttons, designed logos, tshirts, referree'd at SCRRF Fall Classic, easily brainstormed our Chairman's award app, submission for
the reality show . This kid was a goldmine waiting to be discovered and
taken advantage of.
It's a pleasure to work with student George Chen and watch him take the ball and run.