My view of teaching changed . . .
. . . when I had to do it myself.
Being a school teacher is exhausting work.
Find out why by watching our two minute video (full text below).
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from Comenius (here). Mark is President of The Comenius Institute (website). Dr. Eckel spends time with Christian young people in public university (1 minute video), hosts a weekly radio program with diverse groups of guests (1 minute video), and interprets culture from a Christian vantage point (1 minute video). Consider becoming a Comenius patron (here).
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FULL TEXT:
I thought I had married the laziest woman in the world.
Robin and I were married three weeks before school began in the fall.
She taught second graders daily at a Christian school. I was beginning a four-year grad degree.
We were each busy after school hours: Robin with lesson plans and grading, I with reading and writing.
There was one big difference between our after school hours. Robin would come home every day after school and take a nap.
I thought I had married the laziest woman in the world.
The excitement of being a newlywed, a new stage in life, moving to a new place – nothing seemed to keep Robin from her after school, afternoon naps.
My fall semester ended a week ahead of hers. Robin asked if I would spend a morning with her class ahead of Christmas to teach the Bible lesson. I had heard great stories about classroom teaching from Robin. I was anxious to see what all the excitement was about.
I spent two hours in Robin’s classroom with twenty students that day.
I was Gulliver in the land of the Lilliputians. Little hands were everywhere. “Personal space” had not been taught at home. Questions were fired from every angle. “Why are you so tall?” “Do you know my dad?” “I have a boo-boo? Wanna’ see?!”
When they weren’t asking questions they were talking . . . about EVERYTHING. TMI or “Too much information” was a foreign concept to seven year olds. Each one demanded all of my attention. Emotional energy was being drained from my person. I was on my last life in a living video game.
Teaching that day I floundered. I flopped. I failed.
And I had never been so tired in my life.
Robin stayed to teach for five more hours.
I went home and took a nap.
At the Comenius Institute we celebrate the hard work of all educators. And we also celebrate naps.
For Truth in Two, this is Dr. Mark Eckel, president of the Comenius Institute, personally seeking truth wherever it’s found.