As someone who is about to start student teaching in a few short months, I wonder to myself if I will ever have an impact on my students enough that they will remember beyond the classroom. I want my students to know that they have the power to achieve anything as far and as high they deem possible. Just because we do not have a horizontal driver's license does not mean that we do not understand what is going on around us.
I was truly inspired by Angela Maiers speaking on how two simple words can change lives. What are those two words, you might ask? You Matter. Maiers spoke on how many people throughout their lives feel as though they are unnoticed or that they do not matter to others. The power of noticing is so extreme and has such an impact on others. As a future educator, I hope to have some sort of an impact on my students to make sure that they all get noticed; to make sure that they make sure that they know "You Matter".
One thing I absolutely hated throughout school was being so bench pressed for time in mastering a skill. As soon as I learned that Pythagorean Theorem, I was not taught how it applied in real-life before we moved on to another formula . Dr. Tae spoke some very true words as,
All of us can share and teach. It is our responsibility to distribute and share what we know. We can all be great teachers; we can share our knowledge freely and really change our world. Knowledge should not be selfish. Teaching and learning are part of our cultural habits. They should not just be something we do in school.How can we have our students wanting to come back every day? How can we create lessons that will make us lock our doors to keep others out? How can we make such an impact? How can we tweak our teaching to make it the best?
I love the notion of enduring understanding...of something that we teach in our class actually mattering after the class is over to the life of the student.
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