Beautiful Growth
I was pottering about in the garden tonight and thought about a little story that I wanted to share. If you teach long enough you eventually collect a whole lot of really lovely stories about the kids you teach. Every teacher can probably tell you about those lovely moments where a student has said or done something that makes everything worthwhile. A little note at the end of the year, a quiet word about how you've made a difference to them, or just doing something that reminds you of why you became a teacher. Quite a few years ago I worked in a catholic boys school in Sydney where I was the head of IT. I happened to have my own office (in the same room as the servers of course) but I tried to make it a bit homely by bringing in a few plants to brighten it up. Not being the greenest of thumbs, I killed most of them. I'd replace them, but then kill the replacements as well. As a gardener, I really don't have the knack of it. Like many teachers, I had a group of k...