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I Am The Tin Man
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6 thoughts on “I Am The Tin Man”
🙂 and now we are the tin man and you are our Dorothy, Lion, and Scarecrow!
Erica thank you but I fear that I am just the man behind the curtain. We all are that in a way. There is no Oz the Great and Powerful. There’s only us.
Any time I talk about my switch to TCI, I talk about attending the Maine conference 4 or 5 years ago and seeing your presentation and the way you simplified it all …you made it actually seem possible. For me, Susie Gross and Jason Fritze were like the icing on the cake!
True. But please give yourself credit. Last year, I hated teaching. I had no real idea how to do it successfully. I tried doing it the way Blaine Ray had taught but it wasn’t me. I was trying too hard and it was too mechanical. I had discipline issues galore. If I had had the option financially, I would have quit and stayed home with my daughter and never looked back. Don’t get me wrong, I still want to stay home with my daughter BUT not because I hate teaching. There was no way I was going back to the book way of teaching so last summer I picked up your book PQA in a Wink and it gave me hope. I ended up also reading Stepping Stones which led me to join your blog. Those books and this PLC group (which includes everyone, too) has saved my career. I promise! This is by far the best year I have ever taught. I still have sooooooo much to learn BUT when we stop learning is when we become unsuccessful anyways, right? So this is me saying…thank you for putting yourself out there and sharing the knowledge you have, your insights, your ideas, even the ideas of others. =) You are very good at giving everyone else credit. I know because I am the same way. =) But you deserve credit too! So thank you!
Thank you Erica. I can think of nothing better to hear on a Monday in the middle of January than a story like yours, which is exactly the deepest motivation I have for this PLC.
This is what is so incredible about the CI teaching community: we are changed by being with each other.
I know that Michele and I have said it before, but language, in communication, is creating a picture and the mind and/or heart of another person. Whenever we share our challenges, our struggles, our triumphs, our joys and our questions, we are sharing our hearts.
How could we not become better teachers and better people?
with love,
Laurie