Cathy Davidson encouraged us in #FutureEd to share who is our fave teacher and why… I had a couple of people in mind, but then reading other people’s responses (and also the interviews in the last video) inspired me to re-think this question.
I am thinking of several of my fave teachers and mentors, and what they all had in common was this: they cared about students as individuals. They were kind and loving and caring.
Yes, some of them also challenged me to think beyond what I thought I could think and do more than I thought I could do.
But kindness and caring for human beings? That’s priceless. That will stay with every student, whether they excelled at the course or barely made it through.
It is a good reminder for how to be a teacher myself. I have seen it more often in the older and wiser teachers, and I hope as time goes by, I will become a wiser and kinder teacher myself.
(Initial) Reflecting Allowed 