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Judge not..

11/10/2013

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I am sharing some thoughts I had first expressed in 2010 because I feel they are still relevant.  I originally wrote this blog old school, pen and paper.  I was an Educational Assistant at the time, and I was frustrated by what I had witnessed in the classroom that day.  For me, what I witnessed help solidify my teaching philosophy, it boils down to one word: dignity.  Every interaction must  leave my and my students' dignity in tact. 

January 18, 2010
 As I sit in my sub-servant roll as a Teacher's Aide why is it easy to judge?  Is it because I see myself with my own classroom, its it because I am to eager to be at the front of the room or is there something else?

Does just a desire to be a teacher make a teacher?  Or is it the willingness to always be a student that makes a teacher?

Everyday my goal is to learn and grow so that I may help the children learn and grow.  I believe that is my job.  That by merely obtaining a Bachelor of Education does not make me the foremost authority on everything. 

Each child has something to offer me and it is with great humility that I accept that and learn to work with it.  I feel the curriculum is secondary or tertiary to how a child feels and is able to learn in my presences.  At the end of each day I ask myself, did I do what I could today to make a positive impression upon that child?  Did I smile at them, did I look into their eyes, give them my undivided attention for that moment and ask how they were, and really, really listen to their answer.  I strongly feel that the student teacher relationship must be mutually respectful and that everyone' dignity must be left in tact.  I feel it is deplorable to demean any child in our classrooms as this may be the only safe place they have.  

As the classroom teacher I do not have the right to publically ridicule a child in front of his peers.  High school is har enough for most of these students, I need to be an ally not an enemy.

Every child has the right to receive an education in a positive environment that is of my making. 
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    I am a teacher who came to education late in life, and like those who are born again I love to preach and teach about my vocation. I am a teacher who is always a student.  Here you will find my thoughts on how to improve my practice as an Educator.  I sign off with "That's my view from the 86th Pew," the reason is that I own an old church pew that sits in my front entrance and the plate on it says 86.  I love that it is a play on words in that the view is what I see as well as what I think. 

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