Lately, teachers' gestures with their students are making us smile and show us how Vocation is fundamental in occupations such as teacher.
Today it is a teacher from the state of New York who has encouraged her students before an important examination through personal notes at each desk and it is evident that We would all want a teacher to leave messages like that in our children's desks ... or in ours when we studied.
In Argentina, we discovered Lucia who valued and evaluated her student's desire and effort more, given her personal circumstances, over the knowledge acquired.
In Spain we saw how Ivan sent a personal letter to each of his students to motivate them, to encourage them to continue their efforts before finishing the course.
Now it is at Evergreen Avenue Elementary School in Woodbury, a small town in New York State, where the 5th grade teacher has traveled one by one the desks of her 19 students writing to each one and in a personal way, a motivating message, a phrase of encouragement, an idea, a reflection, some words with which also show the love of the entire faculty staff to each of them.
“I know this is the first time you face this exam. Use all the tools and grow your brain. ”
Motivation and effort
Chandni Langford She has been the teacher who has written these messages that have become viral in just a few days and that we have been able to find through social networks.
In fact he used the hashtag #GrowthMindSet referring to the need to adopt a growth mindset, a hashtag that when found on twitter, shows many ideas about that growth mindset launched by different teachers in different parts of the world.
Chandni with his marker (which can be easily erased) he toured the desks of his students with the intention of motivating them, giving them confidence and confirming that the teachers had seen the effort they had applied to the course.
“We are very proud of the progress you have made this year. Take your time and work despite the challenges! ”
But this teacher in addition to the message, left at each desk "A secret weapon", some cupcakes he called "stress donuts" so that everyone would take it when they felt the need to calm their nerves during the exam. Few better things to get closer to a child, a student who speak their own language and do it with love and sense of humor, as this teacher did.
The faces of the boys and girls to see those cupcakes and read those words sure that they were filled with emotion and surprise, the teacher is clear that they do not realize yet but “can get what they set out” with help, yes of teachers like her and like so many others that we are meeting these days.
Teachers of this school, convinced that it is necessary to instill work habits and effort in the students but they also know that they are children, that they have a need for encouragement and self-confidence and that for this the individualized attention to the student is very important.
Chandni has realized during the course that her students have worked hard and with this gesture she wanted to make it clear that she knew it, that she had seen it every day in each of them, her attitude, her effort and her desire for self-improvement. .
“I am not telling you that it will be easy, but it will be worth it! Do the best you can. Your teachers love you ”
With this involvement on the part of the teachers, it is more feasible to get students who want to learn, with an attitude of personal growth, who want to know more and do it a little better every day. After all, that is the final intention of the school, the faculty staff and Chandni herself, to make sure that every child of today is a responsible adult in her own community.
