\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Author Unknown <\/p>\n
In my classroom I teach my students about reputation by telling them, “I am going to read some names to you. I don’t want you to say anything. I just want you to listen. Listen carefully. There will be a test at the end. I slowly read the names of 5 or 6 people currently featured in popular youth media.<\/p>\n
At the end of the list I wait a few more moments, then I say. “As I listed those names, thoughts went through your mind. Some of them were good, some of them were bad.” I then pick a student to share a bad thought he had about somebody. After the sharing I ask if anybody else had the same thought. There are murmurs of agreement. I do the same with good thoughts. <\/p>\n
I then say to the students, “Your reputation is the very first thing somebody thinks about YOU when they hear your name.” That statement –in ten years of teaching — always receives a few moments of stunned silence. Then we go on to discuss the ways one builds a reputation and the way one changes it.<\/p>\n
Always, always at the end of the discussion as we prepare to move on to the next thing some one says, “I thought there was going to be a test.”<\/p>\n
And I answer, “There is sweetheart. It’s called life. The reputation you build is the grade you earn.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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