I want my heart to face humanity in my classroom by guiding students’ intellectual, emotional, and spiritual health through passion, discipline, and relevancy for what matters. Schooling cultivates a balanced self that uses integrity to respect different perspectives while also having the ability to support personal beliefs.
I want to practice the art of vulnerability for my students so that they are in a safe and realistic environment pertaining to the largeness of life. The separation between facts and feelings often creates lifeless content that puts distance between school and the world which ultimately reduces truth. I want my content to be eternal conversations taken outside of school walls into the tangles of life. "Necessity of Compassion" was a wonderful article that articulated what it meant to have connections in our classroom instead leaving it be a lifeless autonomy. Very often, we are held back by technology, but also very often, technology speeds our life up? I wonder where we end up from this back and forth of waiting and rushing, waiting and rushing. I have wanted to be a teacher since my own middle school days. Why? Because that is when a teacher first told me why I was sitting in those chairs day after day. Maybe I hadn’t listened in grade school, but it finally dawned on me that there was a method to the madness, that there was a reason for nine hours of what is called learning. My core belief centers around this. I want my students to feel compelled to learn because of the benefit that will come from it and not just some mandatory obligation to be chained to an uncomfortable plastic chair with no where to put my energy since I'm not allowed to tip back in my chair. Where should my energy actually go then? Maybe there’s an opportunity for self-growth, a larger awareness of the people around me, or a sense of wonderment to be caught in the net about butterflies’ powerfully delicate wings.
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July 2019
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