I know no one ever said college was easy, but dang...

I know I haven't posted in a while, and I also know that my page looked funky as of last march. Not my doing, was blogging for a grade back then. I haven't had any time to muse about my studies, life, or the education system in general for a while, so I think I will turn my brain off and let it decompress. Because I have been thinking a lot about what my favorite teachers had that made them my favorite teachers.
     Honesty, integrity, creativity; many traits that some of my favorite teachers exemplify. The constraints of education have little room for goofing off, and when we are encouraged to do so, the differentiation benefits the overall goal. Our future profession is as much lecturer as it is psychologist, therapist, and parent. It is not what you do, it is how you do it. Cliché? Perhaps. Yet, it is the simple answer to why so many teachers we love are good, they do so much more than their job.
     One point that I feel strongly about is teachers getting mixed up with the professional aspect of their job and becoming disconnected from the human aspect. A better way to say it might be that you should fall in love with teaching the subject, not just the subject. It was too often that I felt that my teachers did have a deeply rooted love for calculus, physics, chemistry, European history, but they lacked the connection between the student and the academia. The teacher is a conduit for transferring information from the board, the book, the world, into a young mind.
      Emulating successful techniques should be a thing that educators are more willing to try in their own classroom. Does the teacher making their classroom comfortable for themselves? What about for the students? Flexibility and being able to change, is something that doesn't come easily. I have felt like this profession is so much about making sure students get to where the state needs them to be that teachers don't have the time to push themselves to be great. I want to work at a school with a great administrative staff, and other great teachers. We are all in this together. Teach as a team, and you will be better for it. It is only one of you, and an increasing number of them. I cannot combat the number of children in my class, but I can challenge myself to take help where it is offered. I can challenge myself to give forty-five high school students an epiphany all at once.
     Furthermore, taking the time to make sure your blog posts are well edited and  successfully organized......Oh, well, then.