My partner came home from school tonight with a story of the young ex-student who visited to show and tell a liver transplant scar and to thank her year six teacher (my partner) for the belief in herself that she learned just four years ago. She said my partner was the most memorable teacher that she had ever had. Red eyes and tears in our kitchen.
Within ten minutes my son, who attends the same college came into the kitchen to ask if I remembered a student that I taught a couple of years earlier who has chosen to shave her heair off to raise money for cancer.
I spent the day surveying teachers about Inquiry and Problem Based Learning. It’s easy to think that what is taught in the classroom stays there. I would like to think that the today’s lesson of the day is that we have a far greater impact than we realise. I hope that we, as teachers develop learning experiences that allow kids to think about how what they have learned can make a difference to other people.
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