From our life journey, stories evolve.
Educators have stories to tell. Their lives are a mix of teaching, learning, and family and are guided by passion-filled principles. When Kathleen Sokolowski sent a tweet asking educators to share their teaching story in a 6 word memoir, I paused to reflect on why I teach.
Teaching is my passion and I have been:
My long-standing career in education has taken me on an incredible journey from urban educational settings in Albany and Syracuse to Long Island where I taught and supervised K-12 students from diverse backgrounds. Experiences from novice reading teacher to reading specialist/coach to districtwide Language Arts Director have provided me with many windows into the hearts and minds of students.
Because passion was still burning when I retired from public education, I changed gears to consider an unretirement lifestyle. I decided to go back to my passion, teaching and thus, began a career as an ELA Consultant. Teaching teachers has been a fascinating experience. Doors of possibility have opened. For the past two summers, I have taught an ELA Summer Institute at the local college to graduate students (teachers in the field). This summer, I asked the teachers to unleash their creativity with the end goal of finding their voices. They responded as I expected-with enthusiasm, passion, and pride.
You can see their accomplishments here.
No matter what type of student came before me in my career, I have been guided by positivity to impact learning. Motivating the learner from a passion-filled perspective has provided me with the opportunity to encourage all types of learners to move in small steps to succeed.
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Motivation is a key factor in engaging students
in the task of becoming lifelong learners.
What are my takeaways from decades of teaching experience:
Build a culture of trust and solid relationships
Engage learners from a stance of positivity
Engage learners from a stance of positivity
Kidwatch
Look for teachable moments
Look for teachable moments
Scaffold
Honor ALL voices
Release responsibility
Celebrate the sparks that ignite
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What is your teaching story?
Share your six-word story on Twitter
with @MrsSokolowski and #liwp6words.
It's Slice of Life Tuesday at Two Writing Teachers.
Join me to read what others slicers are writing about today.
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