i started a new blog, which will be public, about public school teaching. I think it will be sort of a melange of my perceptions & experiences as a new teacher, and commentary on educational philosophy and pedagogy. i'm going to put all my notes on it from my student teaching and from books i've read, etc. i hope it will be a useful reference for me--a sort of clearinghouse for all the frantic scribblings & interesting books of the last two years--and while i'm at it, maybe someone else will read and comment. who knows.
i'm still setting it up, so don't link people to it yet, but here it is if you want to check it out. i will still post my innermost thoughts here, so if that's in the least bit interesting to you, well, you know you're always welcome. :-)
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*The quote in the top bar is from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, whom I tend to view with some suspcion as a person (great teacher or charismatic cult leader? I'm not sure!), but whose teachings I often find useful nonetheless... here is a further elaboration:
The sense of trust is that, when you apply your inquisitiveness, when you look into a situation, you know that you will get a definite response.
If you take steps to accomplish something, that action will have a result--either failure or success. When you shoot your arrow, either it will hit the target or it will miss. Trust is knowing that there will be a message.
When you trust in those messages, the reflections of the phenomenal world, the world begins to seem like a bank, or reservoir, of richness. You feel that you are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages....
You trust, not in success, but in reality.... [W]hatever the result that comes from your action, that result is not an end in itself. You can always go beyond the result; it is the seed for a further journey.
And,
Often, when someone tells us we should be fearless, we think they're saying not to worry, that everything is going to be all right. But unconditional fearlessness is simply based on being awake....
[F]earlessness is unconditional because you are neither on the side of success or failure. Success and failure are your journey.
2 comments:
When we chatted recently you had a great story about your kids. A little illustrative of how you've changed and learned as a teacher but mostly a funny and very human story. Are you thinking of writing some of those down as well, just to remember? Then again my brain is a sieve and yours isn't - you'll probably remember it whereas I might not. Chip has come to learn that movie watching is one of those things that pours out of my brain. Often I'll forget that I've seen a movie, or I'll remember that we saw it and overall how I felt about it, but don't ask me what happened or who was in it. Hope all's well
- n
hmm, well, either you have forgotten how much of a sieve my brain is, or it has gotten worse with age.
i tend to think the former, because i also tend to think that you may possibly have picked up the phrase "my brain is a sieve" from me...i don't know where i picked it up, but i know i've been saying it forever.
along these lines...what story? :-) remind me & i'll post it. at the moment i'm pretty exhausted and pissed and a lot of the events of student teaching are passing out of my head, but i would like to remember.
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