| | Student teaching has taken a lot out of me, and time after time I’ve been looked down on from others in the school cooperation like I don’t understand and that I can’t teach children.
But today after school in the library, I had a totally different experience:
I was in the public library in the children’s section looking for valentines books. Little did I realize that all of them were right behind me the whole time I was looking on the computer. I wrote down addresses and then went to different shelves and couldn’t figure out why they were not on the shelves! Then I realized that they had all been pulled to be put in a Valentines section just for the holiday.
Well, the whole time I had been looking, there had been a young girl and her father at the valentine’s section looking for a book. The young girl was looking for “just the right book” and she had been looking for quite some time and the father was eager to help. They had spent time reading over titles while the father kept suggesting ones. It made me smile. So, once it dawned on me that I shouldn’t be running all over the children’s section to look for valentine’s books (because there were all pulled and place in this section), I started to look at this tiny section of books along with the father and daughter. (So imagine, 3 people looking over a very small amount of books.) I tried not to frighten the girl into thinking that I would get the book that she would want; after all, she had been there for quite some time. So, as I was looking the father became tired (or cramped, we’ll never know), and sat down asking - almost pleading, for his child to find the book. I will have to say, though, that his patience was very good.
As I was looking I pulled out a book, flipped through it, and it seemed just right for this young girl so suggested it to her. She was a little amazed that I would just pull out a book and hand it to her, but she looked at it, and sure enough, she liked it. In fact, she liked it enough that she promptly turned around and told her dad she had got a book she liked and was ready to go. (How that made my heart sing!) I’m sure the father was a little bit stunned that I just, with one glance, could find her a book after they had been looking for quite some time. I realized then that I really know children, and I can connect to them - no matter what adults in the “education world” tell me. Here was a girl I could just instantly help. Say what you may, but I truly know kids.
I was VERY thankful for this little "moment of sunny happiness" amongst my rainy day. 
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| | Posted 2/11/2009 12:19 AM - 23 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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