Today has been one of those kinds of days when everything goes right. Today I got to spend time with some of my favorite people at Truman, and I got to do an activity I've missed since moving back to Kirksville: teach. Now, I understand a substitute teacher isn't a "real teacher" per say, but I still got to go into a school almost every day and facilitate learning. I got to see and talk to kids. And even though I was just a substitute teacher, I really felt like I had relationships with all the kids. When I go back to Joplin, I see these kids working jobs and growing up and I always think, "Hey! That was my kid!" That's one of the crazy things about being a substitute teacher, every kid in that school knows who you are and you will most likely have every kid in one of your classes. It may be silly, but being in a school every day working with students constantly reminded me that teaching was a passion, it was something I enjoyed.
Today I got to teach a lesson to my senior seminar class about cover songs as form of adaptation. Planning the lesson and doing the research reminded me of how much fun it is to teach people something. To facilitate a discussion, and learn something yourself. To engage people, no matter their age. Today I was so excited to see that almost everyone in class participated in discussion, and I'm pretty sure that's never happened.
Perhaps I will give Teach for America a shot after my year off? Who knows?
Dooooo it! You would be an awesome teacher! And Teach for America is such a cool program.
ReplyDeleteI left you a comment, sharing how exicted I am for you and how great I think teaching is! I don't know what happened though.
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