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Time to Reflect – 10
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2 thoughts on “Time to Reflect – 10”
Look at the resilience! We try to teach our students to develop resilience and that hard work pays off, and what a great example. Why did you keep going and not give up? I think the core of it is passion. Once you are passionate about something, you’ll keep going, relishing the highs and pushing through the lows.
My career in teaching has been very scattered. I started out teaching high school, moved down to middle school and then upper elementary. I’ve taught so many subject areas because that’s what they needed me to teach. 3 years ago, I walked away from it for a variety of reasons. I’ve done plenty of reflection and I came to realize that I just want to teach French – not French immersion, not social studies, not language arts. The opportunity that I’d been dreaming of happened this spring. I was offered a position teaching Middle School French. However, they use a method that I hadn’t used before. Thanks to the principal who interviewed me, I discovered Ben and then Tina. I’ve been reading and watching as much as I can, and my passion for teaching has been reignited.
Thank you, Ben, for pushing through and sharing your discoveries. Your passion is helping so many people to stay excited or to reinvent their teaching.
Thank you Dana. Actually when I try to figure out why I’ve been so intense all these years it is because perhaps because of those first 24 years where I WAS a grammar AP type of teacher and the equity piece was just so obviously missing.
It always struck me as very wrong that, even though ALL people can master languages, only a few got to the upper levels. Usually white girls with money. It seemed so wrong so that is one reason I got so intense.
Also, another thing, I believe that there is not enough art in the world, and that fairly normal jobs can be pushed up to the level of art. People suffer so much in their jobs, so why not elevate work to the level of art? What not try it, anyway?
When I think of teaching I think not of mechanical delivery of instructional services but of art, and language teaching can be fine art. It can exist in rarefied air. It can be a place where love happens in a loveless world.
I see language as a bridge for love to cross over from one person to another. And if we are all part of God, part of his Expanse, then it can be a spiritual kind of thing. We can be happy in God’s love by sharing language. It is possible.* Language is so much more than we think it is, at least I think so.
How to know if we have raised our craft to the level of art? We see their smiles….
*That is why I think assessment should be measured in smiles and not numbers. I mean it. I think a smile reveals more about what a kid is learning than a test. I really mean that we can only measure human interaction (language) via human interaction.