Saturday, November 8, 2014
Secret Lives of Teachers
Elissa Nadworny's Title "The Secret Lives of Teachers: Up, Up and Away!" caught my attention right away. I mean, teachers with secret lives? I've got to know more. In the NPR article she features Joshua Weinstein whose secret passion is flying, so much of a passion he works at the near by air field part time to earn flying money, by day he teaches Social Studies. "Passion for anything is important, he says, and I want my students to know that," (Nadworny 2014).
I have to agree and I think we get so bogged down with the day to days and the ever changing, ever addition to our careers that we forget about our passions, our secret lives. Teaching was once a passion for me, a rush and now with the changing scope of my position I don't often experience that rush and passion is waning,but I will try hard to get it back or develop my own secret life. :)
Nadworny, E. (2014, November 6). The Secret Lives Of Teachers: Up, Up And Away! Retrieved November 7, 2014, from http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/11/06/361744278/the-secret-lives-of-teachers-up-up-and-away?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=education
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I like it…funny sentiment! I try to encourage students to accentuate their strengths. Although I am not always successful, I attempt to enforce the power of their individual gifts. No one has an idea of what successful skills look like in the future, but people can always rely on their individual assets to bring value to the overall gestalt.
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