"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
-George Eliot
I ADORE this time of year! I love the longer shadows, shorter days, cooler nights. I can't get enough of pumpkin flavored yummy treats, and of the vibrant colors replacing the green we enjoyed during the summer months. Each autumn, I think I enjoy autumn more than the last, knowing just how quickly it goes by.
Another thing that I adore is teaching. I had my very first teaching assignment when I was in the 3rd grade, and my teacher asked me if I would be willing to help a classmate with her reading workbook pages. I remember feeling so BIG and important, as my 'student' and I went out into the hallway with our PUG readers and began working on the task at hand. Who knew that I would one day choose teaching as my profession, and that I would still be taking students out into the hallway this many years later?
I feel as if my job is really two fold; to teach the state-mandated objectives that the students in 11th grade are required to be taught, and also to instill in my students the ability to think, speak, and write critically. Sprinkle those two things with teaching them to question, to have manners, to develop empathy, to see connections between literature and life...oh, well, the list goes on and on. I take it one day at a time, sometimes one hour at a time, knowing that I need to be enjoying it, because oh, how quickly this season of my students' lives go by!
MW
-George Eliot
I ADORE this time of year! I love the longer shadows, shorter days, cooler nights. I can't get enough of pumpkin flavored yummy treats, and of the vibrant colors replacing the green we enjoyed during the summer months. Each autumn, I think I enjoy autumn more than the last, knowing just how quickly it goes by.
Another thing that I adore is teaching. I had my very first teaching assignment when I was in the 3rd grade, and my teacher asked me if I would be willing to help a classmate with her reading workbook pages. I remember feeling so BIG and important, as my 'student' and I went out into the hallway with our PUG readers and began working on the task at hand. Who knew that I would one day choose teaching as my profession, and that I would still be taking students out into the hallway this many years later?
I feel as if my job is really two fold; to teach the state-mandated objectives that the students in 11th grade are required to be taught, and also to instill in my students the ability to think, speak, and write critically. Sprinkle those two things with teaching them to question, to have manners, to develop empathy, to see connections between literature and life...oh, well, the list goes on and on. I take it one day at a time, sometimes one hour at a time, knowing that I need to be enjoying it, because oh, how quickly this season of my students' lives go by!
MW