Our School has hired Sandy Beery an educational consultant to help us grow & learn as educators. Ms. Beery runs her own consulting service out of ABQ, helping charter schools get a grasp on their mission and goals. Her prior champion school was Taos Integrated School of the Arts where she served as Director.
I am lucky to be included in this professional development as an Educational Aide. Last year, I was borrowed out as Edgenuity monitor and used as a person during P.D., so I missed a lot of staff talks. I feel more valued, I guess, now, as I am somewhat of a secret teacher in the view of the 30 other faculty. (I think few peers know I used to teach, and I resonate you know, fill the swimming pool around me with sounds of "oh she is just a retired old lady or burned out too stressed with my family - life responsibilities" to be silently brewing with wisdom and heavy ideas about the future of Education).
Here is something we were encouraged to write as "homework" for our Staff Development Day April 30th:
EDUCATION
“Yearn to Learn” is a phrase and a lapel button I crafted in
1989. I told my students I appreciate them when they are excited, eager to
discover, wonder, and learn.
At that time, I decided to use the tactic as a teacher to manipulate rumors about the (to some, boring or irrelevant ) author Hemingway and searched out the truth—was he secretly gay, did he use his experiences to create, why did he end his own life? In 2018, I know that I have to be (somewhat) more politically correct and sensitive to my community (Gay: suicide) but each writer brings common experiences to the table.
Do they connect with ABQ kids? I will search my community and learn more about my kids and what resonates with them. My excitement for how a writer’s words can change lives will fuel my lessons of learning—at various levels the facts to synthesis.
At that time, I decided to use the tactic as a teacher to manipulate rumors about the (to some, boring or irrelevant ) author Hemingway and searched out the truth—was he secretly gay, did he use his experiences to create, why did he end his own life? In 2018, I know that I have to be (somewhat) more politically correct and sensitive to my community (Gay: suicide) but each writer brings common experiences to the table.
Do they connect with ABQ kids? I will search my community and learn more about my kids and what resonates with them. My excitement for how a writer’s words can change lives will fuel my lessons of learning—at various levels the facts to synthesis.
Passion
Community
Learning
Henry David Thoreau believed human activity, not memorization, was the key
to learning. Interactive, lively education is better. Getting out there! His love of reading combined with his ideal of hands-on learning, and his brief stint in isolation and living life simply taught him and those who read his work about both reality and philosophy. If we
can harness the natural curiosities and energy of children, then we are
drilling into the brain and the future of our hope of our society.
If we as teachers are excited about teaching, helping youth grow and learn skills, we will plan and think about learning for three hours a day at least. And share and talk about our plans with everyone (in the community).
“What does education often do!— it makes a straight cut ditch out of a meandering brook.”
— Journal, October 31, 1850 (SEE ALSO https://www.carneysandoe.com/blog-post/thoreau-on-education )
If we as teachers are excited about teaching, helping youth grow and learn skills, we will plan and think about learning for three hours a day at least. And share and talk about our plans with everyone (in the community).
“What does education often do!— it makes a straight cut ditch out of a meandering brook.”
— Journal, October 31, 1850 (SEE ALSO https://www.carneysandoe.com/blog-post/thoreau-on-education )
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