Shaping lives or minds?
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. (William Glasser) Shaping lives rather than minds is the true calling of teachers. With keen eyes, you spot the tough kids who hide broken souls. You've been given a life to write with your red pen. Encourage rather than criticize, restore rather than tear down. I recalled a time before I started going to school, I used to envy my sister, who was two years older than I was. As the school bus picked her up from our home and began departing, I'd look longingly as it disappeared around the street corner. When she got new school text books, I would rush to feel and smell them, looking forward to the day I could start attending school.That day soon came, but I started disliking school. I became filled with lots…