Amazing Educator - Kimberly Duran!
Kimberly wrote:
Week 2 ‘MAC Class’ Reading Post
I really enjoyed the section about inventing yourself as a contribution, and even posted the steps in my classroom and it’s been a powerful thing:
1. Declare yourself to be a contribution
2. Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
A lot of my students are lacking confidence and I am always looking for new ways to find to let them know that they are important, and that their thoughts are meaningful, and THEY are meaningful, that they have a place in this world! Chapter 4 really just fell right in where I have been trying to go with this and I have really enjoyed learning things like this throughout this program. Things that I can take immediately back to my classroom and see it make in impact instantly. The students get a kick out of me sharing stuff from my Master’s program with them, and allowing them to be involved and learn through the different things that I have been doing.
My Response Is:
Kimberly!
Hey, I also get a kick out of learning things that ‘you’ share throughout this Master’s program! Your care level for students is so exemplary for the world of education. I know that you also are one of the coaches at your school and that you are always doing things for and with your students. – And now you are finding ways to make students feel even better! Your quest to enhance students’ feeling of importance is amazing. That is definitely your gift. You are very special at it and that ‘place’ is the highest level a teacher can take students to. Your ability to help them in this critical age of middle school will save many of them in life. You are the reason many of them will go on to become successful because a special teacher like you, believed in them. Your calmness along with the fact that you are also so smart and ‘cool’ must make every student want to join your sport or be in your class. I want to be in your class! Thank you for taking education ‘higher!’ - Hunter
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