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ms. lisa's musings and mayhems
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
-Leo Buscaglia
quoted in the May 2012 edition of Young Children within “Supporting the scientific thinking and inquiry of toddlers and preschoolers through play” written by Maria Hamlin and Debora Wisneski
Achievement is still possible. But it cannot be experienced without taking some risks. Toss your lowered expectations and set your sights on something spectactular. Don’t start at a walk, start a little too fast. Run some hills. Face the demons that come with a maximum effort. Find that something special in you. Great things are never accomplished by setting small goals.
-Gary Cantrell
When I become old habits, I lose my authenticity. When my actions are not in accord with my expressed values, I lose my integrity.
You can’t push a string.
Be Brave. Love it.
Everyone has their own reasons for becoming a teacher. However, most of those reasons are related to helping young people. No matter the pressures, be brave enough to be true to your convictions!
The Root of Teaching
The root of teaching lies not in simple methodology, but in the messy business of human relationships.
-Amelia Dress, Exchange, Jan/Feb 2012
I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that crates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized.
Perhaps Americans have gotten the education system and school reform they deserve. Perhaps the cult of measurement and the politicization of schools through endless testing and endless bureaucratic meddling is the perfect system for a largely apathetic public that pays a lot of lip service to the value of schools and education but oftentimes seems more engaged in Bachelorettes and Apprentices.
Yes. Please do.
