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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9212233.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %STUDENT TEACH LEARN NEW SKILLS BEHAVIOR KNOW 921223 Students learn new behaviors, skills, knowledge and attitudes when they feel secure enough to take risks with a sense of safety. Ridicule, embarrassment, threats of punishment, threats of rejection and excommunication; these undermine students' opportunities to chose and learn new behaviors, skills, knowledge and attitudes. Conformity and fulfillment of expectations are usually perceived as being relatively risk free; unlikely to bring ridicule, embarrassment, threats of punishment, threats of rejection or excommunication. Conformity and the fulfillment of traditional expectations do not involve creativity, imagination, or transformation; or their risks. Most communities are better at promoting conformity, than they are at promoting learning creative new ways of dealing with dilemmas and problems which their community does not know how to deal with. To promote healthy learning and creative initiatives a community needs to give its students of all ages the gift of true personal security---within contexts where mistakes are opportunities for open and honest learning; rather than occasions for ridicule, embarrassment, rejection, excommunication, etc. Mistakes should not be occasions for punishment; but occasions for open and honest dialogue about what can be learned from the mistakes by recognizing what lead up to the making of the mistakes. Through honest conversations it is possible that people will be converted from the attitudes, assumptions, perceptions and beliefs which lead to the mistakes; to new creative ways of approaching situations which are much less likely to lead to repetitions of old mistakes or the making of new mistakes. Yet, such conversations are often impossible because students are not given the security which is the prerequisite to them. Too often teachers are more preoccupied with being in control of their students, than with liberating their students to be creative---which is apparently more risky. Yet it is the preoccupation with control which leads to frustration, anger, alienation, rebellion, and ultimately to violence. That which appears to be less risky, is in the long run the most risky. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================