So, we are chugging along and the second marking period has begun. I can honestly say I feel slightly embarrassed about how little chemistry I have taught but at the same time, I am beginning to realize that my students need something a little different from me. Well, some of them want to form an advanced chemistry club for afterschool so that I can cover some more topics with them at a faster pace but in the meantime, I spend most of my class time doing a lot of personal growth training and life coaching. At this time, that just seems more important.
In the past, most of my students were able to just fake it. They may not have been excited about school but they played along. Well, the group we have this year are hmmm, more honest. They are so intense, so passionate and so sensitive in their approach to life that they can’t just grin and bear it. Trying to push them through a unit, or project or a lesson is like trying to push a cow into a barn. Well, it’s a good thing that I learned from Dani Johnson that sometimes it’s easier to back the cow in. Just give it a tug in the opposite direction and they’ll slowly back away. I didn’t grow up on a farm but it makes sense to me.
So here I am, talking about goal setting and manifesting your destiny and a group of them just want to talk more afterschool. A little bit about chemistry, some more about life, family, their future… And in that moment, I realized that for me, it’s never really been about chemistry. Well, not the electron-proton stuff anyway.
Serve well. Live free.
Have a peaceful journey.
