Initiative

In my opinion active, drive ambition, leadership, and originality are all synonyms for initiative which means that someone isn't afraid to take charge or try to help. Initiative means constantly trying to do something that you want to do or what needs to be done. Some examples of taking initiative in your classrooms are...

1. Making your own lessons or games.
2. Helping your teacher without them having to ask you.
3. Volunteer one-on-one help to a student.
4. DON'T sit in the back of the classroom and "observe".
5. Put kids where they are supposed to be if your teacher is busy.
6. Think of creative ways help kids learn.
7. Enter the classroom and get started right away.
8. Try to see what needs to be done in the classroom before your told.
9. Stay very focused.
10. Always continue to show that you really want to be there.     

In my classroom this week I helped all the students that weren't catching up on everything as fast as they should be or as fast as the other children. We began something that they have never done this weeks and my teacher needed help teaching the slower students. I impacted my teacher by helping her and she wasn't so stressed out because she wasn't the only one trying to teach them something all by herself.

Lack of Confidentiality

To respond to Mrs. Kallas's blog, the volunteer application on the BISD website does not give enough information to future volunteers. Confidentiality is not stressed enough through the application. Volunteers need to know what they can and cannot do or say. Volunteers should not be able to talk about confidential information to others just because they are not part of staff. They still deal with students every day and should not have the right to talk about other students.

Just because a volunteer is not a teacher should not give them the right to talk about a child to someone that has no logical reason for  knowing. What is going on in a students life or is not something every body in the world needs to know.

If volunteers go against the volunteer policy, we need to make sure the rules are enforced and in effect. If volunteers go against the policy they should not be able to work with the students. Make the volunteer do something that is not around many students such as organizing or planning everything. Volunteers need to realize that a students life should not be a topic of conversation.