PLN 5

Today I read a post on the Cool Cat Teacher blog titled "I love this Kindergarten video as students envision if they were president." Even thought this post was a very, very short one it said a lot in those two, three sentences. What I thought mattered from this is what Victoria thought was also important about this post which was the fact that these children envision themselves as making a difference and something that is far away, but also something that encourages them to be what every they want to be when they grow up. I think it is very important to envision yourself as something you are about to be come, because then it becomes more realistic to you. In this book I read recently about three boys growing up in a very harsh enviorment wanted to become doctors and where they came from no one grew up to be nothing better than a secretary. When they graduated from high school they all three went to this summer program before collage for future doctors and there they meet this one counselor who saw them and called them what they were soon going to be doctors. One of the boys explained how much that mean to him, the fact that one person was calling him Dr made all the difference and made him strive to really earn that name. That is what these kindergarten class is doing envisioning what they are soon to be.