School Updates

Teaching is fun, teaching is rewarding, teaching is difficult, teaching is not boring.

What's important to remember is focussing on the kids. This is done in various ways. For me, I tend to focus on them as individuals, on their personalities, lives, and what they need to be successful.

The sure keep things interesting. For example, today I was asked what I think was my favorite question in teaching thus far. "Were there Wednesdays in 1945?"

Yes, yes there were.

However, I've gotta commend the kid for being aware of the possibilities that Wednesday didn't always exist. It actually comes from a German day's name and did not exist before the advent of English. So, you know, he was on to something there. I didn't explain that to him, though. I just enjoyed the question.

I'm seeing more and more how kids need to learn some things that are beyond the textbooks. Basic social skills like how to de-escalate an argument, how to sit still, how to wait patiently. Many times, kids are taught these kinds of things at home, but sometimes they are not. When you combine many students with various backgrounds into a classroom, you get an interesting group dynamic that can cause children to act very differently than they normally would.

These beautiful children with so much potential need to learn how to use this potential to their fullest. This can only happen if they have some of these foundational life skills, in addition to the curriculum we teach in school of reading, writing, and math.

So again, I say, it's important to focus on the children, focus on the future. The next generation is huge and strong, and they're going to inherit a world that is vastly different than the one into which they were born.

I'm glad and honored to be a teacher, to be given stewardship over the future. And I know that only with the Holy Spirit can I even hope to help them realize and receive all that Yahweh has for them. HalleluYah!