by Today I received a LinkedIn invitation to provide my expert opinion on the teacher topic: the gap between technical support and teaching.
First, my Ego ran to find a big crown designed to fit my head happily. But I stopped this process and asked myself: “Olga, from your experience, what do you want to share without a big, dusty, and heavy crown?”
So, below are some thoughts 🙂
There is no gap between technical support and teaching if we understand: who the Teacher is and what the lesson means for the students.
A lesson is a process where a teacher supports a student to learn how to effectively navigate his own ship in Life’s ocean, by thinking not only about himself, but also about the other ships, and the ocean.
The main priority is for a teacher to be a Teacher, who opens the door to the World through knowledge, not from How, but through What and Why.
That is the foundation of a teaching process based on a Culture of Thinking.
When a teacher keeps that as a priority in his activity the question about balance with technical support in a lesson plan design will be realized easily.
This topic about a Teacher is really deep. . . .
The first a Teacher are parents. . . .
They are who give us the ability to see our World, to learn how to take a spoon in the hand, take the first step, say the first word. . . .
Children learn what is love through their love for their parents. Without this first lesson, it’s not easy to love others. . . including ourselves.
As parents, we also are students who learn how to be a Teacher but not a Shepheard, and how to open the door to our World but not an inspection hole in the door.
When we are growing as parents we support children to grow not only from words but through deeds that always speak louder.
I remember the eyes of a boy who happily shared the news: his parents hadn’t been drinking when he came back home.
I remember the words of a businesswoman: “It is too late, probably. . . .” I saw the tears of a man who found the notebooks of his Mom where she had written her poems for many years, living in a small village and having a not easy life. . . . I said to him: “This why you are who you are. . . “
What am I talking about?
It is never too late to understand what a Teacher means in Life and say: “Thank you!” even though they are not close anymore.
It is never too late to understand the value of being a Teacher and take responsibility for being a Teacher.
It is never too late to be a student. Without a dusty and heavy crown 🙂
P.S.
What about technical support? Well, it is good but “How” isn’t the priority. When we focus on “How”, we lose “What” and “Why”. . . .
“. . . Jester laughed! What a happy laugh it was!
Clean-clean, ringing like a bell . . . laughing easily, like the child who always lives close. . . . The forest picked up this miracle and carried its transparent echo, as a most precious treasure, sharing joy with every living thing.
Jester laughed and began to realize that the jester was no more—there was someone who was him . . . once. He rose from his knees, gently and carefully cradling the little red berries in his palms.
He did not yet know what to call him, but he knew there was a Woman in the World who a long time ago, along with the light of Life, gave him his Name.
He will go there . . . and there will also be happy strawberries. His strawberries. . . . And he also knew that the Way he goes is his, and only his Way, where you always make your own choice. Long or short . . . who knows?
He was about to leave when he saw Old Man’s stave by the fire. “The light Old Man . . . No dream it was! Thank you!” smiling, he remembered Old Man’s words: “We meet the ones we need to meet.”
He placed his bag next to it . . . took only bread—why does he need the rest—and went on the road. . . .
The Sun, from the height of the Sky, watched how with light steps, goes on a Man. . . .”
(from the “Happy Home Fairy Tales”)
https://olgaverasen.com/happy-home-fairy-tales-eng/#jester
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