The day I walk in

The day I walk in I want to feel that I belong. I want to make a difference. It’s not being naïve its being optimistic. The day I walk into my first classroom, that is my responsibility, I will feel like I belong. I will know that all my hard work has paid off and that I am in a state of complete content. I will see their faces and know this is what I spent all my time and efforts on, I belong.

There is a sense of feeling you get when you walk into a room and goose bumps starts to cover your skin and you are the definition of radiance. You know it is where you belong and you are passionate about it.

The day they walk in I want them to feel that same sense of belonging. A room that’s filled with laughter, hopes, aspirations and dreams. An environment where their voices are heard and where there is a sense of mutual agreement and respect. As Wills (2015) mentioned, I would like to establish mindfulness as a habit and part of the class culture.

I am passionate about the concept of equipping learners for life after the classroom, like previously mentioned in my blogs. The day they walk in I want them to learn these qualities. For the day when I walk out they will not remember my face or the type of perfume I used. Most of them would not even remember the daily events. But they day I walk out I want them to remember the life lessons and my pedagogy skills.

The day they walk out I want them to have a sense of mindfulness and respect towards others. For what is a mind if you can’t change it?

self-directed learning

How come we have revolutionized almost every aspect of our society but we stay with the “faithful” way of teaching? Why can’t we Enriching lives and come together to create meaningful ideas?

Schools are meant to accept everyone and accommodate those that can’t work in the traditional way. Teachers should push learners and allow knowledge to be built through exploration of facts. When students can be independent they will not just survive but thrive. It will allow learners to escape from the boxes they are regularly placed in.

Allow learners to explore their own way through the week so that they can form their own knowledge where you then come together to discuss the different findings. This allows learners to create their own knowledge. Through exploration, using technology, learning will come. Create a place where learners want to be and allow them to be creative outside of the curriculum.

When learners work in groups they can feed of each other’s knowledge. Your actions will affect each other and allow handling the struggles. Confidence in gathering information will be created amongst learners. Because learners are left there is interactive working in order to make it work. Responsibility is needed amongst the learners. They will be responsible to ask their own questions and formulate their own solutions. They will have to determine whether the research is accurate and appropriate. Learners, when criticized, not get offended but see it as a beneficial opportunity. It is therefore that these types of method will not suite every learner but isn’t it worth the try? But this kind of teaching equips learners to be a part of the effective society.

It will allow learners to yearn to know more. Not only based on their focus studies but the world after school. Like mentioned in my previous blogs we have to shift our mind-sets to one that creates adults that are not robots of knowledge but encouraged and passionate about learning.

There is therefore potential for learners, maybe not all, to reap the benefits of tech-distant learning.

 “Learn to learn, learn to teach and learn to work”- The independent project