I personally didn’t want my freshmen to make the same mistake, so I made attempts to make myself available for them. Around the middle of the semester I gave out my schedule and told them, “if anyone wants to hangout, to get to know me better just text me.” Obviously, not everyone is going to want to get to know you, but in hindsight the week I was available the majority of my freshmen weren’t. My goal was to get to know every single one of them on a personal level, but I was only able to get to about 8 of them. In my opinion, I didn’t do a great job as a peer leader because of this. Now it’s the spring semester and the 8 kids that I did get comfortable with actually contact me and ask me to hangout. The other 10 don’t and I put the blame on myself. I think Mr. Miyagi said it best when he said, “No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher.” The fault is on my side and more than likely I’m not going to be a resource or a friend to those 10 from now on because they don’t feel comfortable with me. My plan for next year if I’m given another opportunity to be a peer leader is to set up more one-on-one hangouts with all of
I personally didn’t want my freshmen to make the same mistake, so I made attempts to make myself available for them. Around the middle of the semester I gave out my schedule and told them, “if anyone wants to hangout, to get to know me better just text me.” Obviously, not everyone is going to want to get to know you, but in hindsight the week I was available the majority of my freshmen weren’t. My goal was to get to know every single one of them on a personal level, but I was only able to get to about 8 of them. In my opinion, I didn’t do a great job as a peer leader because of this. Now it’s the spring semester and the 8 kids that I did get comfortable with actually contact me and ask me to hangout. The other 10 don’t and I put the blame on myself. I think Mr. Miyagi said it best when he said, “No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher.” The fault is on my side and more than likely I’m not going to be a resource or a friend to those 10 from now on because they don’t feel comfortable with me. My plan for next year if I’m given another opportunity to be a peer leader is to set up more one-on-one hangouts with all of