In the opening chapter of Meet Me in the Middle by Rick Wormeli, he talks mainly about how as middle school teachers, or teachers of any age group, our main goal should be to inspire our students. While yes, it is important to give them the knowledge they need to be successful in life, the key is to inspire your students to go through life being good and honest people. He highlights the major points to impacting this wisdom on your students and the key to hitting the idea home when talking to your students.
A major thing that he talked about, that I’ve seen both in my experience as a student and in the classroom as an educator, is that a lot of teachers, and many other people, see teaching as being a chore and that “the three best parts about being a teacher are June, July and August”, acting as though, teachers chore through the entire school year and only enjoy the time off. I feel, in my experience, that there have been plenty of people outside of the field of education who believe that the only reason teachers teach, is so they can get three months off of their job. Even though, truly, being a teacher is something that’s so much more than a job, and much more of a lifestyle than anything else.
As teachers, it’s our job to inspire our students to love what they do and put their whole heart into the things that we do, so when we as teachers don’t do the same thing, we’re failing to teach our students that message.
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