Inspiration

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” -William Ward. I can still remember the names of the great teachers in my life who have inspired me. I hope one day to inspire one of my students. In order to inspire I firmly believe we must know who we are as people. What are our interests? Our strengths and weaknesses? The effectiveness of our teaching will be in how well we are in tune with ourselves, but much more in how we inspire our students.

My interests have always lied in the arts. My dad and brother both are artists, and I posses the talent but that is not what I am passionate about. I'm passionate about children and teaching them in new creative and innovate ways. I am a very visual person, so my class room will have a lot of pictures, paintings, and music posters. Music surrounds my life. I would rather listen to music than do anything else. I know music can help stimulate learning. Children can relate to popular music and when used in the classroom it can get any students attention. Creativity is not just held for art and music. It can be used in Math applications. For example, let's take story problems, a mundane task for some, and make it come to life. The reciting of the problem is important, but let's act it out with actors, music and props. As a future educator it is my duty to make sure students learn but learn so they are inspired to learn more and go into the world and inspire others.