This coming week at the Preschool we are expecting corporate visitors. We have been preparing for the past couple of weeks, fine tuning everything that has been introduced over the past six months. There has been a very big quality initiative with classroom, curriculum, and finally interactions. Last week four of the thirteen centers were chosen to be visited and mine was one of them. As a final step we toured each other’s centers and made suggestions or brought back ideas for our own. From the feedback I was given my two year old classroom needs to step up a bit. I know from past conversations this teacher’s immediate reaction will be on the defense and will not be open to what she needs to hear. From what I have learned this week I want to take the NVC approach. I know that I need to take the following steps with her:
· I need to express to her what I want to see in her classroom. I also want to make sure that she knows that my ideas are only suggestions and that I value her opinion and she is free to make her own choices as long as the overall goal is met.
As I delivered my message she immediately became defensive. Her response included statements like we have to do what everyone else is doing, what they say goes, and I don’t have time to do all of this. I continued to reassure her that we are working together as a team and no we don’t have to do exactly what everyone else does. The ideas are suggestions but the goal is the same. I think she felt better and I did see some changes being made when I left Friday afternoon. I do see how making a connection with this teacher was successful and both of our needs are being met ( http://www.cnvc.org/ ).
I guess I will see on Monday and ultimately how it goes on Wednesday.
http://www.cnvc.org/
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