My professional colleague Mr. Blackburn and I are writing our first blogs today. I feel like as a blogger I should be writing down recipes I have stolen from out of date food magazines that still use empirical measurements or a new fitness regime that has absolutely no scientific support but claims of incredible weight loss while making you almost insufferable to all your friends.
I guess what I should be talking about is my roller-coaster journey of becoming teaching with all its ups and downs, corkscrews and loops, steady inclines and steep drops… I guess you get the picture by now!
If you asked me what I though being a teacher meant a year ago i would have been very relaxed in my response. It was all being a part of a bigger process, a gear in the education engine. Almost insignificant in the greater picture and just there to fill a specific role. While this is true to some extent i realise teaching is not about satisfying requirement checkpoints and offloading knowledge onto unwilling participants but is more about constructing meaningful relationships. Students need so much more than to learn facts, school is where we learn to be people, and everything that comes with it.
While it has taken me a while to realise this, my view of teaching has now changed angles and I am now veering onto a different highway and of to a new direction in my journey to become (hopefully) a better teacher.