I first have to give credit to my family for demonstrating what life-long and passionate learning really means on a day to day basis. Wow, do my parents love to ask questions and they also love having answers. This give and take dialogical conversations that I've been having as I've grown up allowed me to actively engage in school with a learning mindset, not just let my mind go through the school factory.
When my teachers have a variety of forms of teaching is when I learn best. I know most people are humans of habitat, but I have to daresay that I'm not one of them. I get bored with routines and do find them more of a factory-like system even though it is good for students to get used to disciplinary work in a consistent way. Just like in the TED talk I listened to last night, students want to be surprised, perplexed, or maybe even confused. It keeps us all on the edge of the seat right? The next thing about 'spark learning' is that I love to talk, but only when I feel safe. Learning is highly dependent on the environment around us and I know that I absorb and explore best when I have time to express my thoughts and listen to others after I've gotten to know them. Doing skits and silly get to know me games unfortunately are the portal to a comfortable environment. Setting expectations of respect honestly comes with practice and is not as immediate as knowing the person's name next to you.
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The language that flows not just from your fingertips, but also with the help of a rounded palm with a crux between the thumb and pointer finger is my recipe. I chose to be a student of language arts so that I could dive into my passion for communication. There are endless and bottomless ways one come combine all 1,000 English words together onto a regurgitated piece of wood called paper. Just like my book in my other class talks about, language is power. I want my students to be able to access this opportunity to speak for themselves and one day help others do so as well. It's not just that though, students ripen from many different perspectives and artful communication, especially if done with an open mind.
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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