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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Developing as a teacher

The last two weeks have been very rewarding. I have been working in several areas with students in county and state competitions. Our students have won several first places,and in robotics they won the county, state, and region, and two of the robotics groups will be going to the world competition. I am the first teacher arriving at school, so I keep the cafeteria at which time I am able to tutor students every morning. It is very rewarding when the students wrote in the school annual that Mr. Cagle does everything for us. I look on teaching not as a profession, but a calling. I had a long and good career, and being able to teach to me is being able to give something back. It is wonderful every morning to have something to go to that you thourghly enjoy and to have students that mean so much to you. When going on field trips and introducing students to a world that they didn't know existed is so rewarding. We have just finished field trips to Sea Island and to Georgia Tech's nanotechnology lab. The nanotechnology lab at Georgia Tech just blew the students away.

2 comments:

Dr. M said...: Hi, Gerald - your post has blown me away as well - congrats on the competition success and being mentioned in the annual - all pretty special. Thanks for sharing.; February 25, 2009 at 7:41:00 PM EST
RS said...: Gerald,

I like your reference to teaching being like a calling. It is for sure that our successes are more rewarding than our pay checks. To be able to share our knowledge and experience, then to be able to learn from the students also keeps us young.

After reading about your robotics program I would like an opportunity to come and visit your school. We are hoping to bring these kinds of programs to our school. Your young and creative programs are what our schools need.

Thanks,
Ron; February 27, 2009 at 8:17:00 PM EST