Recently we coaches spent a day with our new staff (a wonderful combination of both beginning teachers and teachers new to our school division) at our orientation call-back day. We asked them: what do you love about teaching? We think what they said is good inspiration for all teachers.
- I love the dynamic atmosphere of the classroom, things aren’t the same from one class to another or even one day to another in the same class.
- The student process from “I have no idea what I am doing” to “I got it!”
- Building relationships with students.
- I learn a lot in the process of teaching.
- I love meeting new people.
- I love creating relationships and seeing the light in a student’s eyes when they come to an understanding! (epiphany)
- Seeing “the lightbulb” come on for students. This moment is WHY I teach.
- The moment when everything clicks!
- I love smiling faces you encounter every day :)
- I love being creative - I get paid to be creative!
- AHA moment, I get it, Yes!
- I love interacting with the students; being able to hear and respond to what gets the students questioning.
- I love seeing the students learn and apply what they have learned outside the class.
- I love meeting students years later and they have a “remember when we…” story.
- The contact with the students.
- Having an impact on children’s lives and having connections with students.
- I love the schedule, always doing something new, working indoors during winter, the amount of resources for professional development.
- The enthusiasm some kids have for the material.
- Being able to share my faith everyday and celebrating our “God moments” together as a class.
- Being with children.
- I love going to work each day and finding I learn something new.
