Works for Miracles

Photo Credit: Author (First Year as a Teacher, 2010)

Teacher. Lately, I have been pondering the idea of what my favorite thing is that I do as a teacher for part of the #YourEDUstory 2015 blog challenge. This has been challenging for me because I love my job and role as an educator, so it is hard to pick just one!

As I was pondering this topic, I stumbled along Taylor Mali's poem "Miracle Workers." In his poem, Mali explores what teachers do and concludes we are workers of miracles. One of my favorite lines from his poem is "I just gave you what I knew you needed before you had to ask for it." This is my favorite thing I do: provide my students with the support, attention, and care that they need. I try to give it my all every day because I want to provide my students with the best possible education. I, like Mali, believe that "Education is the miracle. I am just the worker." So I will continue to work for miracles....it is my favorite thing that I do.

Comments

Growth

My one word intention for 2015 is growth. As an educator it is essential that I provide the best instruction and experiences for my students. In order to achieve this, I know that I need to continually grow both professionally and personally. Keeping my focus on the word “growth” will help me improve my lessons, progress on the SAMR model, and continue to meaningfully connect with my students on daily basis. When I reflect back on writing my teaching philosophy as a new teacher several years ago, I remember pondering growth and stagnation. I knew that I never wanted to become complacent with my teaching style, curriculum, or role as an educator. I made a promise to myself to always focus on moving forward and becoming a better educator throughout my journey. I want to keep up that goal by consciously focusing on growth each day in my classroom as a teacher and outside of my classroom as a I prepare and create for my students.

Fall Cue 2014 Learning Highlights

As a Tech II Leader/Coach for my district, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to attend the 2014 Fall CUE Conference. This was my first Fall CUE experience, and I LOVED it! It was a weekend full of learning and connecting with other educators. I left the conference feeling inspired and rejuvenated as an educator. I wanted to share some of my favorite Aha moments to continue the impact of CUE. Learning Highlights: It is important to Cultivate Curiosity within the classroom! In Karl Lindgren-Streicher’s and Robert Pronovost’s session, a group of educators discussed their thoughts, ideas, and best practices for cultivating curiosity. One of my biggest takeaways was that curiosity is where learning comes from. I see the validity of this statement as I reflect on my own journey of learning. The learning experiences I remember the most are the ones where curiosity played a large role. I still rem...

Happy to Be Back

A lot has changed since my last blog post: location, career, and family. Location Last time I posted, I was living in San Jose, California and now today I am living in Orange County, California. I loved my time in San Jose, while I was able to meet great educators and make life-long friendships, but nothing beats living in your hometown with your family. Career You will notice that my previous blog posts were centered around my role as a classroom teacher, and these were some of the best experiences of my life. Today, I am an administrator at the district office where I get to spend each day doing something different to make education better for kids. Family One of the biggest changes in the past two years is that my husband and I are now parents to an almost two year old little boy. He is our everything, and I thought life was great without him...but I was wrong: life with him is better than I could ever imagine. Now that things have settled down in my wor...

Learning and Growing as an Educator

Search This Blog