Lately I have been very frustrated with one my classes. This class contains very low math skills and many who already failed this class. It is a challenge but I truly like these students. I have been very frustrated with their work ethic (for some of my students) and attitudes toward not just math but education. All of this frustration doesn't really sound like "something I grateful for" today I know but I just can't them off mind so I have been thinking ALOT about what I can do as their teacher to help them and motivate them.
One thing this struck in me was how grateful I am for my own education. I have been blessed with intellectual capabilites some people are born, in God's soverignty, without. I have been blessed by living in the U.S. where I never had to think "IF" I get to go to school or college or grad school for that matter. It never occured to me I couldn't, especially K-12--everyone in our country gets to. I am also grateful for the school I teach at and all that it provides in materials, technology, and opportunities to my students. I am GRATEFUL! It is knowing these things though that makes me hurt so much for my students and wish they could GET what they do HAVE. I know more than I wish I did about what they don't have. Some have horrible home situations or bad experiences with school. I just wish they could start seeing a little bit of the blessings they do have in their school. I wish they could think ahead to what failing a course for 2nd or 3rd time means for them down the line.
I remember visiting Nicaragua--the second poorest country in the world and seeing students NOT allowed to go to school and what that meant for the future of their life. I remember being broken and I am grateful I was. I am so grateful and don't want to squander the blessings God has given me.
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