I’ll be teaching today, 29th Feb 2012. I love my job, my children, and my homelife. We’ll be learning to sew and quilt. We’ll be doing maths and English and stuff as well, but I want my children to know the basics, to know where things come from, how they are made, what they are for and why we have them. I want them to respect the effort put in to the clothes that they wear and the people who made them.
In short, I want my class to know the things I teach my son. I care for them the way I care for my son. I love my son, in ways that I could never explain – he is my son after all! But when those children are with me, and he is with his teacher, he is her responsibility and they are mine.
A lot of the ways of doing things are being lost in Britain. Half my children have never sewn, most have never made bread or baked in any way. That isn’t what I want for my son, why would I want it for my class?
In Loco Parentis. As though they were my own.
I couldn’t agree more. I am a teacher also, and there seems to be an increasing amount of skills and knowledge that are being passed to us to teach their children. In fact many do not want to seem to be involved in the education of their children at all! I probably over compensate and end up spending too much time with my own children, ensuring they have the skills that they will need to become active adults in a global community.
This is a lovely sentiment and inspiring for myself with my class!
A superb post and one I not only whole heartedly agree with but one that I also actively implement on my days at school. I currently work part-time and when I’m at work I care for my class as if they were my own and want them to reach their full potential and develop as the future adults of our world.
I’ll be teaching on February 29th and am looking forward to it.
Great post, really captures how I feel about teaching. One of my colleagues retires tomorrow and I’ve spent the evening creating a mock-up newspaper in her honour. Despite media spin, teachers matter. And good teachers shouldn’t be allowed to walk out that door without knowing their life’s work was meant something. As though they were our own. And appreciating our own too x
A truly inspired post. I wish my son was in your care every day… I wish you were a teacher in my school. Keep on sewing, keep on baking and keep on Nurturing x
Beautiful words, captures exactly how I feel about the children in the school that I work. For some children that sense of being looked after and cared for will only be experienced at school with teachers such as yourself. Well Done!
I’m a TA working with Yr6, my daughter is also in that year, my son in Yr3. I too think its important to show all children that you do actually care about them, that you’re not just there for your own, but for the class & the school. Children are special & I like to think I make them feel that way.
I don’t have any children, strictly speaking I don’t have a class either! But as a substitute teacher I try to look at each child in the same way. Especially as a sub because I know that for younger children, SEN children a change in teacher even for one day can be upsetting. Care for children you care for the world, care for the world and you care for our future! Thank you for this great post.