In a perfect world everything would be well perfect. Understandably or not the world is not perfect. With this being said, no one is perfect. We as people strive to change to be perfect even though we dispose it. How can we as teachers expect our students to change if we won't. The chapters 4-7 of "A Walk in the Wood" talk about changing ourselves if we expect others to change as well. This goes along with the bell hooks reading a couple of weeks ago when we use change as a painful but necessary term. hooks talks about changing the way teaching is viewed and that it is not all just "white men and their will." Teaching is not one style or a single person's will.
We cannot teach others about the world if we do not teach ourselves first. Teachers should not teach study habits if they have not experienced them. We have to be able to change on a dime in the classroom for a number of reasons. These include but are not limited to.
1. Different style learning with students (this is a big one).
2. Emergencies.
3. Unexpected negatives.
Everything has to change and change is painful but we cannot move forward into that "perfect world" mindset if we do not change.
The chapters also talked about how we perform ourselves on the daily. hooks says "Teaching is a performative art." We have to teach ourselves how to perform the title "teacher" so we can help our kids perform the title of "student." Even this is irrelevant unless we change ourselves for the better and not lose sleep over little details.
We run constantly on fumes because of whatever the reason is. We have to change that. We have to take care of ourselves before we can take care of ourselves. If not we are working backwards instead of forwards.
Remember #dontrunonempty, you got this.
Parent, J. (2018) A walk in the wood: Meditation on
mindfulness with a bear named pooh
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