I am sure you will do great with the job, if you keep God's hand in it. It really can be a test of faith to begin new things but I am sure it is for the better. As far as learning something just a few weeks before your students, I have heard many success stories if you keep a positive attitude. My uncle owns a music store but his daughter didn't learn how to play piano until she was 21. That is when she needed a job and he told her she could teach a piano class for him. As long as you stay a week ahead of the students, you are fine. Also, you will understand their pain and frustration for it because you are learning with them.
THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2010
Wk 3 Reading _Passion
Week 3 reading
What are you doing these days to express your passion?
I have always lived life with passion, and when I felt my passion for the activity I did for a living wane, I changed careers…4 times in 56 years. Now I am about to enter number 5, since I will be moving from the Visual Art Teacher of elementary and middle school students, into High School Digital Design Instructor. This is my first leap into the unknown, without a parachute. Literally, I got a job doing something I barely do. Let me rephrase that… I got a job teaching something I barely know!! Now those of us in education know that is really a leap of faith.
To make that leap I have begun two additional courses while still completing this Master’s with Full Sail. I am also taking (auditing) Photoshop and Illustrator courses! Love the community college for having what you need when you need it. My passion is to remain an educator who is working at the cutting edge of technology, and learning CS5 just before I begin to teach it only seems crazy to other people. I have learned to trust my ability to do what needs to be done, with God’s help, when I am in His will. I would not have presumed to try to teach something I don’t know without clearly seeing His hand in it. And as our state motto says, With God, all things are possible! So really, I suppose my passion is truly for God, and I just do what comes my way, as I try to walk in His will. His passion for me is something I feel, and that passion lights my life in service to others. Our urban students will benefit tremendously from the light I can bring them via this new tech program, and the Adobe programs I have been fighting to get into our tech arts programs for a couple years. I am blessed to be the beneficiary of the vision of others and the potential to change lives is a daily reality because of these blessings.
How could I be anything less than passionate with such a great calling?
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