Quilting a Year of Teaching in a Passion For Doing

This is long overdue but it is my answer to the Passion Quilt Meme.


A is the Art, for me my strength.... in teaching the artistry frames the whole day,
B is the bins, boxes, buttons, basics that will build the concepts in brains that are bridging.
C that cohesion containing the craft of the teacher at work categorizing and crunching, containing and conversing....don't laugh
D might be the direction, the drive, daily work , perhaps the details that are differentiated or detours delineated or dozens of D's that might disappear...
E evokes the energy, enthusiasm and examination, perhaps the empirical lyric evolves all from E.
F the folly of forgetting the first things a child will fathom: friends, freedoms, and first steps
to a frontier in future spent building it here.
G is the gateway a teacher can be.
H the help that a teacher can bring
I is initiative that Blooms in our eyes.
J is just in joy of this surprise.
K would categorize (if it could), so in K there is kindness and knowledge and some kaution
M is the measuring, marveling, mind and methodology must be a part of your mix.
O is observing and stating a theory, organizing to test and operate squarely
P with a passion a teacher goes to her practice with phonics and poem, partition and patience
Quite obviously she cares for the kids, seeing their potentials as her livelihood
Reflecting, restating you return to reteach, and read, we must read read read read we must read as we should
S being there to systematically display all the things that you know children must do today
the science, the sounds, the spelling and signals, the social studies, sums and suns and so much more
T is the time the growth will take, squared by the training you have to relate
U is understanding the work has great facets
Very few variables should narrow your view
Watch out for the wings that they might need to soar, whatever the day open that door
V is the values, the views and the vault where you store
W hatever you're wanting with teaching do more to prepare a student for
XY and Z with passionate energy and maybe far less of TV

The last line...bit weak....

The Art of Teaching Passionately

If, as I suspect we are, we are all bound together in a patchwork of meanings
And mutuality, destined to see to each other's mutual success
Then my teaching children, is moments in a lock of life
Each action, project, piece of learning
Bound together inside of the contexts
Of lives, of hearts, of children interpreting an adult. Keys.
A place, in community finding their way into a new life, new challenge, looking
Observing us as we are, as we say we are, trying to figure out
Possible reasons, seasons, explanations for why we rotate
As we do.

Teaching is all I've really ever entertained as my life
With children, with friends, with those I know
We might paint, draw, dance, we might collect data, read , add , subtract but we will give all of Ourselves to the tasks that we are mandated and creating
Into the world we are going a world of hope, if only because that is full engagement
Learning language, culture, being motivated
Seen for abilities, guided into opportunities to apply knowledge,
Develop skill sets, see there are windows and doors that are opening, not closing.
The passion to serve our fellow being, acknowledge suffering, be compassionate
Kind, caring, set up the conditions to allow this child to bloom.
This teaching life has allowed me as my life gift, I can learn how wonderful.
My garden blooms here in a classroom contained within my being.