Change

I am not even going to start this blog off by saying that it has been a long time since I last posted (oh, crap! I just did say that by saying that I was not going to say it.  CRAP!).  I haven't been kicked out yet from Lincoln and I don't think I will be kicked out.

Well, I want to discuss how hard change is.  I have already mentioned many times that change is hard.  But I want to talk more about a change that is detrimental to life.  A change in our thoughts.  I went into my student teaching experience expecting that what I had would work.  What I had was a summer full of people with disabilities and how to deal with them.  Call me stupid (because I know I am), but I had this philosophy.

I knew one thing, though.  I knew that I knew nothing.  The more you learn in education, the more you learn that you don't know a single thing.

But viewpoints change in life, whether we want them to or not.  I didn't expect/want my teaching philosophy to change, but change it has throughout everything that I have done.  Day 1 was only observation, day 2 started it up.  By day 3, I was doing everything, teaching every lesson.  My life has changed because of this in the most amazing way.  My teaching philosophy looks almost identical to what it was before.  With the change of this: We cannot always be the student's friend or buddy.  We need to be what they need us to be.  If that means being a teacher, then be a teacher.  If that means being a should to cry on, then be that shoulder.  I need to use a holistic approach to teaching, and I hope you will as well.