This site is a class blog space for new Career and Technical Specializations and Heathcare Science teachers enrolled in the New Teacher Institute (NTI) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The Most Important Thing That I Learn About Myself
One of the most important things that I have learned about myself is that even at my age, I am still capable of learning new things. Also meeting many different students and sharing ideas has been one of the greatest benifits that has happened to me at NTI. This past year has taught me how important my relations with my students are and the impact that I can have on their lives. In my interaction with my students, I now have more patiences and have become a better listener. Another important thing that I learned about myself is that I needed to be better organized, and to spend more time in preparing my lessons. By spending more preparation time has made my lessons more interesting for my students and helped me to keep my students more involved. The NTI experience has given me a different outlook, and that there is more to life than retiring. I enjoy what I'm doing now and would not take anything for deciding to become a teacher. It sure beats going to an airport every day as I did for thirty years.
Speaking of age, I couldn’t have said it better myself. I had one fantastic career for thirty-four years. But now, I have committed to a second career just like you. I hope this second career is just half as good as my first. I have discovered no matter how hard some of the students try to make things difficult, it doesn’t overshadow the good things that come from the students that want to be achievers. Today was career day at our high school. So, I had a career police officer come to my class to speak to the class. I was amazed at the questions the students ask the officers. For example, one student asks the question, how dangerous is it really for police officers? This question is seldom asked because students normally aren’t concerned too much of what happens outside their world. Just maybe, I am making a little difference.
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