WK4 Comment on Classmates' Blog - Blog Post 2

Picture compliments of Dena Moncrief.

Pam Holifield blogged:

I have recently added the phrase, "A vision articulates a possibility" to my Facebook page to see the comments that would be left. Since I am terrible with delayed gratification, after only one 'like' I moved onto my students to hear their comments. Some students were stuck at the word 'articulates' while others replied, "Oh yeah, yeah I get it Miss (for some reason all the kids use Miss instead of Mrs. such and such)." Anyway, I came to realize that students are the one who should be reading this book. The problem blocking most students is that they have no vision. Therefore blocking most possibilities and missed opportunities.

I look at myself. I always had vision and always steered my course to the direction I wanted it to go. I remember people asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I replied with specific details up to to the type of car I would drive. All have come true except my Eddie Bauer Explorer is a Kia Sedona (which most people think is the Cadillac). My visions determined my possibilities. I wish most of my students would see their visions like I saw (and still continue to see) mine, work towards those goals, and not miss opportunities that might belong to them. Like in the movie "Field of Dreams" if you build it, they will come.

@Pam

I enjoyed our blog this week. Students do need a vision. Some of them have visions but they are the wrong kind of visions. Instead of them wanting things that will help them in life they have a vision of things that will help them bling-bling in life. When you are a child, that vision has to start at home. There are so many things out there like TVs, movies, music that seem to deter students from a realistic vision. Not saying that they can’t have those things but now they want them quick and easy – which is a whole different story. Instead of reading the vision portion of the book…they need the entire book.