MY ACTION PLAN

My action plan for ameliorating the conditions/circumstances that lead to some student populations being denied full access to challenging content and the opportunity to demonstrate learning and achieve excellence is that it starts with myself. I cannot see the nation as the project. I have to start small and within my own self to make a change first and foremost in my classroom. I will take all the knowledge that I have gained through thinking up inequities, to researching a reflecting on verses, and start implementing them in my own classroom. I have been guilty of thinking of students as unequal because of academic abilities and behavior problems. I have dismissed some students as impossibilities, but I have done so because I have taken my focus off the true goal. The true goal being that God has a plan for that student and it may not be to be the perfect and model student that I want or that my administration wants. I have to realize that I serve a God and not man. I am a vessel through which he will use to inspire and show love to these students of mine within my classroom. I am not expected to undertake the entire nation and correct inequity in the school system. That is utterly ridiculous and quite impossible if I may say. The specific actions I will take it to first pray for myself and my students daily. Before planning a lesson, I will also pray for God's plan. And if there are any students he would like me to focus more on because of a need or certain plan, I will ask that he make his plan or desires known to me so that I can serve him the way which he would so desire. I would also go to him with my problems and not try to fix them myself or fix the students myself. It can be quite an exhausting task to try and change a student so that he/she can act like a model student. We all know that everyone is different and that this is impossible. Giving the students knowledge and content teachings will bring improvement, but will not perform miracles. For now, that is my action plan for my own self and classroom. I am excited to bring this into what I already have going. I think it will be a wonderful focus and important necessity to have in my classroom.