Note: To protect the privacy of our members, e-mail addresses have been removed from the archived messages. As a result, some links may be broken.
Find Lesson Plans on getty.edu! GettyGames

Re: Elementary Drawing

---------

From: Maggie White (mwhiteaz_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 11:14:38 PST

Rdunkelart@aol.com wrote:
>
> Help!!! Today some fifth grade students complained to the principal that I
> am too hard on them and expect too much of them - that they are doing their
> best and I keep correcting them. Geeze isn;t that my job.

I wonder if we, in our anxiety to promote "self-esteem," have trained
young people over the years to believe that anything they produce is
okay. Occasionally I have to tell a student privately that their
self-esteem is something THEY have to work on--that's why it's called
SELF-esteem--and that most people find gratification in tackling
something challenging and doing their best.

Maggie