A Shout Out for Teachers

Alright, sorry about the lack of entries, I have actually been pretty busy the last week. Growing up, I had quite the number friends with teachers as parents. And now as I have grown up I have friends that are teachers as well. I have always had a huge respect for teachers because they do so much. Being in a classroom with 30 children for 7 hours a day, then having the time to stay after and grade papers, sort through assignments, create the lesson plan for the next day, and decorate the classroom with the students beautiful artwork. This week I got a small glimpse of what that like would be like.

My close friend’s mom has been a teacher at an elementary school for as long as I can remember. She has taught different grades and has seemed to love everyone. Since I have so much time on my hands now, due to the lack of unemployment :), she asked if I could come and help in her classroom. She had me hang up so artwork and just get the class ready for the parent teacher conferences she had coming up. I was not expecting much and was hoping to be able to help her get things done quickly, but it took longer than I expected.

She asked me to put together this project for the classroom, a way to display the students writing throughout the year. A simple, type up these short bios on the students, cut and paste those onto this paper, glue bio and picture onto another paper, then laminate. I really thought it wouldn’t take me TOO long. Then I started. Going at my own sweet pace, realizing I have only completed like 2 in 20 minutes. That times 30 students, then laminating and cutting them all…needed to speed my pace up! I realized that my perfectionist pace of, “is this completely straight, lets measure the exact distance so it’s equal, oh should I redo the cutting job of this,” was not going to work for 30 students. In the classroom you have to work fast and realize its ok if everything is not perfectly perfect. Believe it or not that was some of the hardest work I have done recently and felt silly that I was tired after, but it is a lot!

So just wanted to write a shout out for all the teachers out there, props to them!! Way to educate all the future minds of America and take the step further to encourage and be there for those minds also. And to take the time out of their already crazy busy schedule to spend time to create space to display the beautiful work of their students, so that the students learn to take pride in their work and themselves. Thanks so much for all you do!!