So first week down and I am now on blog number 2. Some much for consistency! Well it has been both an uplifting and depressing week. I have really enjoyed meeting with most grade levels. The discussions that have come out of these meetings have given me hope that the journey I am about to embark on may not end in the carnage of what little self esteem I still cling to. I love talking about the art of teaching. I love discussions that lead to questions that lead to solutions which end up posing even greater questions. It is this never ending curiosity we as teachers share in trying to truly understand our craft and our students that keeps me excited about education.
That being said I often think people don't know what to make of me. Deep down inside I think every teacher wants to believe in these ideals but find them a little naive. I can see them smiling as if to say "Thats cute Mike let us know when your ready to sit at the grown up table!" I see their disbelief in the core values I come to hold so dear and I begin questioning myself. Maybe I should just invest in a commercial reading program. Maybe I should just tell teachers how to teach. Maybe I should just get out of the way and let teachers do what teachers do. Maybe I am a sell out who has no understanding of what it really means to be a Hawaiian.
At the end of the day what is important is that I go home to my beautiful family with a clean conscious. Clean because though I may not have all the answers to all of the Maybes I do know that I am doing the best that I know how. That is the Art of Staying Me!
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