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.