Pretty soon, he was learning to read and was successful. I want to be this kind of teacher, one who believes in students and doesn't give up on them.
A good teacher tries new things. it's the way to keep from getting "burnt out." Some teachers do things the same way year after year without changing anything. Some of them even save their bulletin boards so they can put them up again the next year. I intend to try something new every semester.
It's exciting to try something new. Sometimes I lie awake at night, excited, and thinking about how things might go during a new activity or a new project. Trying new things to do will also help me to develop a "fund" of useful activities that excite the children and keep them actively learning (and getting rid of the stuff that doesn't work). I think I learn the most myself by dreaming up new ideas and trying them out. A good teacher is one who is always learning herself, I think. The New Testament states, "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again..." (Hebrews 5:12). The verse goes on to say that this requires humility, for we "become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat." In other words, when we are learning, we become like the children we teach. Then, we can have and am not allowed to talk about God, I can still express Christian qualities, create a caring and supportive atmosphere, and foster love in the children with whom I come into contact. I can still teach them to look for meaning and higher satisfaction than buying things, cultivating the body, and gossiping about other people. I can be excited about learning and share my excitement with…
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Children who possess this curiosity will become adults that are more fully engaged in their world, and that examine their environment for better alternatives; this is the kind of adult that I would like to see eventually emerging form my continued educational practice. Teacher-Learner Relationships While I see educators more as guides than as authoritarian figures, there does need to be a clear hierarchy established between the teacher and the learner.
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" Paul is explicit: any deviation from not even the divine law but merely the natural law will result in expulsion from Paradise -- just as happened to the first man and woman when they violated the only law that God gave them. Or we may look at Paul's epistle to the Romans: "God has given them up to shameful lusts; for their women have exchanged the natural use for that which
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