A Month of Teaching....Children
Collectable Mickey
Collectable Mickey
My month since Easter has been a bit hectic, yet fun and different.
I accepted a teaching position for a group of students who had their
teacher go follow a dream to be a manager at Top Golf.
Now I think Top Golf is fun, too, yet these children were obviously
going through the stages of mourning. They felt abandoned. They felt
unwanted and unteachable in this topic of US History.
I knew they were no such thing. I'm not a history buff, yet grew up
around it on most family vacations. We didn't go to Disney World each
year or even more than once, while I grew up. However, the little
Mickey Mouse is both a toy I collected and a memory of when I prepared
to take my own children to Disney World.
It was their first vacation without a history lesson. They visited
grandparents, and Disney, and it was a memorable experience and
cherished memory.
Yet these children have not spoke of Summer Dreams and Destinations to
share with me. Some, yes, have said they will be gone early from the
end of school, yet no happy plans have been shared with the teacher yet.
Perhaps, it's the tough love I have tried to use, to see I believe them
capable individuals. Perhaps I haven't shared much of my life or
interests to get them "warmed up" to me.
However, time felt short for them before High School, and I felt my God
of love and self control, might want them to feel prepared and not
scared to take that next step.
It's easy to give up and think, I'll just stay in this school where I'm
comfortable. I know the teachers, and they know me. It won't matter to
many if I stay here. Yet the school would convince their parents of
other things...like Summer School in a building, instead of on the
road, the way I taught my children each Summer when they were young.
Summer is for fun balanced with new learnings, and new experiences, to
broaden your horizons...especially if you have a hands on learner in
your family.
Or if you are one yourself....
This Summer, I will be traveling to Maine. The opposite direction on
the East Coast from Disney World. Yet I know when I travel I view the
world through eyes anew, like that of a young person, because, well
that's how I feel when I see new things!
This newsletter is dedicated to the classes of the former teacher Ariel
K.
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