Blog #8
My
initial response offered by reflecting upon the question asking what the most
important thing I have learned during my field work is the word passion. Passion
for a career in teaching is the essential path towards being a remarkable educator,
who fosters the “burning zeal” for life-long learning. I have learned by
observation, there is an army of challenges a teacher encounters daily. Many of
the daily tasks teachers meet I believe are skills an individual can be taught
and cultivated through practice. Examples of the skills I’m thinking of would
be organization, multi-tasking, collaboration, systems, and methods for best teaching
application. I truly feel these are skills good teachers have or learn through
time, but inhabiting passion for that which you apply yourself to comes from
within. This I sense is what sets the good and the great teachers apart from
one another. And passion, it cannot be learned.
As
I continue to consider myself a pre-professional in education, I know that in
order to achieve teaching in the remarkable, memorable ways I was once taught,
I will have to make a personal commitment to myself. The commitment comes in
the form of positive self-talk. My logical senses discourage my chosen path to
teach because of the financial consequences teaching provides. But my “self-talk”
also comes from my heart. It reminds me that I love the role of teaching and
leading. The passion I have discovered by teaching inspires my “self-talk” to
accept the journey the heart leads.
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