Thank you for fighting for our freedom!
I’m sorry for those that don’t understand the importance of what you all did for us!
~Sandy
Monthly Archives: May 2017
A Teacher
When I consider all the things for which
I am thankful: my life, my family, my health, friends
The freedom to be an American, and the beauty of
The world in which I live, I know also
That I am deeply grateful for my profession.
I have the most important job in the world!
I am a teacher.
I am sometimes awestruck by the responsibility
Placed within my hands
To teach the future citizens of the world.
Before me in my classroom sit
Future scholars, philosophers, poets and architects,
Writers, doctors, craftsmen,
Future parents,
Waiting and trusting that I will help
To guide them, and give them the skills needed
To live in the future world.
Some days I am discouraged, frustrated, overworked
Or angry because of all the demands placed upon me.
It only takes a quiet time of reflection, though
For me to remember how deeply proud and grateful
I am to be a teacher.
Many years from now
When I’m no longer here
It is my hope that men and women
Will be thankful for their lives,
Their health and friends
The freedom to be an American
And the beauty of the world
In which they live,
And perhaps will live a bit
Better and with greater joy because
I was their teacher.
~Marlene Zahn Chaney, 1990
A Teacher’s Prayer
I want to teach my students more than lessons in a book;
I want to teach them deeper things that people overlook~
The value of a rose in bloom, its use and beauty too,
A sense of curiosity to discover what is true;
How to think and how to choose the right above the wrong,
How to live and learn each day and grow up to be strong;
To teach them always how to gain in wisdom and in grace,
So they will someday make the world and brighter, better place.
Lord, let me be a friend and guide to give these minds a start
Upon their way down life’s long road, then I’ll have done my part.
~Jill Wolf
A Teacher’s Prayer
Lord, grant me as a teacher…
Wisdom to teach principles as well as facts;
Courage to stand firm when challenged by parent or child;
Persistence to teach again and again;
And then again;
Vision to know that results will show
far down the road;
Patience, Lord, patience,
forever and unending.
AMEN
The Teacher
Lord, who am I to teach the way
To little children day by day
So prone myself to go astray?
I teach them knowledge, but I know
How faint they flicker and how low
The candles of my knowledge glow.
I teach them power to will and do,
But only now to learn anew
My own great weakness through and through.
I teach them love for all mankind
And all God’s creatures, but I find
My love comes lagging far behind.
Lord, if their guide I still must be,
Oh, let the little children see
The teacher leaning hard on Thee.
~Leslie Pinckney Hill
Online Summer School for all High School Students
It’s that time of year when students are looking for summer school to enhance or supplement their education. Please share this out with all teachers, parents and administration. It could help students get into colleges or trades that will make a huge difference in their lives. This is the same curriculum that The Bridge Virtual Academy utilized. Thanks! ~Sandy
