Comments on: Take a Risk http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2008/03/17/take-a-risk/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:10:25 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Brian C. Smith http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2008/03/17/take-a-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Brian C. Smith Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:45:28 +0000 http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2008/03/17/take-a-risk/#comment-160 Tracy, thanks for the comment! What you wrote reminds me that everything we are doing is part of the process. Life is a journey and we should work to make ourselves better than we were the day before. We cannot continue to do the same things we've always done. When we are complacent in what we teach, it is simply that for students. I'd rather be passionate and growing than simply complacent. Tracy, thanks for the comment! What you wrote reminds me that everything we are doing is part of the process. Life is a journey and we should work to make ourselves better than we were the day before. We cannot continue to do the same things we’ve always done. When we are complacent in what we teach, it is simply that for students. I’d rather be passionate and growing than simply complacent.

]]> By: Tracy http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2008/03/17/take-a-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Tracy Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:44:23 +0000 http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2008/03/17/take-a-risk/#comment-159 When I first started as a student teacher, I was VERY AFRAID that I was going to mess something up. I was afraid I would make some terrible mistake or teach some terrible lesson that would result in something... well... terrible. My cooperating teacher took me aside and said, 'Each lesson is one day of one full year, out of a lifetime of years.' I took that to mean that if you take a risk and mess up- its really not that big of a deal. But if you take a risk and it turns out to be something great- a child will remember it. Ever since then, I'll try anything! Good luck to your group! When I first started as a student teacher, I was VERY AFRAID that I was going to mess something up. I was afraid I would make some terrible mistake or teach some terrible lesson that would result in something… well… terrible.

My cooperating teacher took me aside and said, ‘Each lesson is one day of one full year, out of a lifetime of years.’ I took that to mean that if you take a risk and mess up- its really not that big of a deal. But if you take a risk and it turns out to be something great- a child will remember it.

Ever since then, I’ll try anything! Good luck to your group!

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