Teaching the teacher

Wow! It has been a very long time since my last post. Life gets busy this time of year for me. Plus a few other things. I was reading today about Jesus and his life. The article I was reading prompted the reader to examine his or her career to see if we were getting caught up in a circus of a career or if we were working towards a bigger purpose. God's purpose. Sometimes I feel very entitled and lazy. But I don't feel that way often at work. The article reminded me that even though this time of year is stressful, that my students work very hard to prepare for state testing, that I work very hard planning lessons for them, but even through all of that hard work, test scores do not matter in the big picture. The lessons the kids are learning are important, but it's more important that I teach them that hard work is the way to success. That it doesn't matter what happened last year, that if they work hard, we can do better this year. The lessons of hard work aren't something that we apply to just today. It's something that we apply everyday. And that's what will pay off. The self discipline that I try to instill in my students is definitely something that I need to adapt to fit a few other areas of my life. I think the older that I get, the more lessons I need to learn.