Today I am choosing to be thankful for every type and individual student I teach. This is NOT easy or natural. In fact, many students are the exact opposite of me so it is very hard.
I am thankful for my students who...
*bring their Bibles to school every day and who I see reading them at school in front of their peers--they inspire me to be bolder in my faith at work.
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*rub me the wrong way--God is using them to be like sandpaper refining the rough edges of my love that can be very conditional.
*get overjoyed at playing a game--they make planning fun and bring out my competitive spirit.
*let me be sarcastic with them and get it--they make the days go by more quickly and make teaching high schoolers so fun.
*talk with me about American Idol--they make the class environment more comfortable as they show other students that Ms. Hall is a "normal" person.
*let me confront them about their behavior--they show me they really ARE growing up and it is really amazing to watch the lessons happen that can mean more than "math."
*prove me wrong--they teach me first impressions are not always true and I still have things to learn; they keep me humble.
It is so hard to be thankful in all those situations. I hope you will continue this blog every year of teaching. It will be so neat to look back in 10 years and see what has changed and how you've grown as a teacher and person. :)
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