Here is a post from Anastasia:
My word is ENTHUSIASM.
I think that I was born with it. They say: "Fortune favours the brave" - I'd add "and the enthusiastic as well". It's so incredibly important to give your heart to what you're doing. For me teaching can't exist without being enthusiastic, inspired and involved - I wish I could use all the three words!, otherwise it's just sheer presence and time-wasting. I'm working with individuals now; each time I am to put myself into somebody else's shoes, sometimes equal to a 8-year old boy, the other time to a 40-year old woman. This experience enriches you greatly but from time to time it's tough if it were not for enthusiasm.
My picture is from the USSR collection of pictures that reminds people of some funny and touching moments of the past.
As a teacher, what are you enthusiastic about? Are there ways to generate enthusiasm, build it? Please comment below.
I get my enthusiasm from challenges I face. These challenges can be simple or complex it does not matter. For me it is the joy of solving the puzzle of a challenge. I think that is way I enjoy programming and teaching. Each day they both present me challenges. In the classroom I find the challenge of getting a struggling student to understand some material pure joy and increases may enthusiasm every time it happens.
ReplyDeleteI am enthusiastic about making people realize they can be and do better at whatever they put their heart to. It gives me happiness and energy and that´s how I manage to get it back to them. On not so fortunate days I get my enthusiasm from music, a long walk and petting my dog.
ReplyDeleteI´d like to be so enthusiastic as I used to be; but when I see what´s happening in my environment, I feel depressed about education. More cuts on education expenses and, as a result, less in quality, attention to diversity, ICT, etc. Today it was a general strike for education in Spain, and all educative sectors. students, teachers, parents... supported it massively. But I don´t expect it changes anything.
ReplyDeleteI get my enthusiasm when students start to do thing on their own without my having to tell them specifically what to do or how to do it.
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