Gratitude Journal Day 15 - Professional Creativity

Today, I am grateful for being able to create interesting lessons for students to engage with.

​I want to make this learning opportunity interesting and meaningful. 

I want to connect what we are learning to the students lives and the students lives to what we are needing to engage with.

I have not had a year, yet, and this may not be totally positive, that I have done the exact same thing with the exact same lessons. 

I have tried different projects and different ways of engaging with the content to hopefully find a way for all students to see and feel their successes throughout the school year.

I have great pride in the time and effort that I have put into creating my website for students to access the history, psychology and government that we are engaging with. 

I ask and guide students through creating their own portfolios so that they can see that they can create their own website as well. Everything that I do I do so that students can see that I give everything that I have but I also help guide them through creating it themselves so they can do it on their own.

I do not want to be a gatekeeper. I reflect regularly if what I am doing is preventing someone from achieving or going where they want. I am not a holder of knowledge that others cannot have. I give freely of all the resources and understandings as I have and continue to grow through these interactions.

I hope I can play some small role in students and colleagues learning journeys because I know that every student interaction and colleague interaction has impacted me to be the educator and person that I am.