This weeks reading are more than a start to inspire but the beginnings to guidelines that I ave been taught by most of my teachers throughout my life. And I am not just talking about school teachers, but friends, family, peers, colleagues, animals, nature, literature, art, music, film, and the list goes on. As an artist we are taught to see the world around us and to perceive it in ways most people have difficulty with. Just like the frog those who are not artists, are limited to what is hard wired to their own brains. Just as I have a perception deficit towards mathematics. My brain is only hard wired to understand certain perceptions. But, what makes being an artist exciting and full of risk, is the idea of creating something from nothing. When I read the quote on Michelangelo, for the umpteenth millionth time, I never get tired of it. Because it is the truth, so many children have build a strong stone facade around them, you need chip it away to reveal their true identity.
Not long ago I completed a course called Creating Emotionally Safe Classrooms. The main idea was about building relationships with students to truly understand how to get that spark back in their eyes to learn, create, feel apart of this world. Relationships between people are the most important I think for all educational environments. Take Full Sail Online, I personally would not be doing so well if it were not for the relationships and personal connection that has been achieved through this program. "The Game" of finding this balance in education between relationship and boundaries is what scares most systems of education. There are some people who have nothing but ideas of destruction and chaos with in their minds that want to bring down everyone and everything on this plant. Which built our own walls of fortitude for survival.
To teach others to take risks and say YES, we as teachers and leaders must first break down our own walls as they did in Berlin.
When I started teaching and till now, I have used the A method to invoke a state of equality in my classroom. Students focus less on the grade and more of the content and engagement of the lesson. Sometimes I struggle to understand some of my students, because they have been behind their walls since birth, that I think I will never make a dent. And then it happens at the least expected time and the light bulbs gleam brightly. Say YES, take risks, and have FUN doing what you love have been building blocks in my educational practices and teachings. Sometimes a couple of bricks fall and need repair, but that is what being human is all about right?
One of my favorite movies is all about relationship building and Inventing! It is called "The Big Labowski."
How are you today, tomorrow, and in the future?
I will respond with "Living into it!"
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Now if we could teachers to focus less on grades and more on their own learning when they find themselves in the role of students...
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