Technology

A few weeks ago (ok, months) I lost my passion. Not that passion folks.. I’m talking about my career.  I’ve been struggling to find my place back in the classroom. I lost that love and passion.  I’m 6 years in, and this was the first time I felt myself struggling to say  I loved my job. I loved my students, and I loved the place I worked, but I didn’t love what I was doing.

So then I started to think that maybe the place was wrong for me. Maybe I needed to teach somewhere else.  And then I thought maybe I shouldn’t be teaching.  These are all questions that I might still need to explore.  But back to the issue – my passion for TEACHING was going.  So, what do I do? Do I find a new career? Is that what I want? Maybe.

But today, while I was in a meeting at work, I was reminded why I started down this career path to begin with.  To connect students with the computer and business world and understand how these skills can impact their lives. My goal, over the next few months, is to get that passion back.  I want to get out of this rut, and stop depending on what I’ve been doing for the last few years.  I want to stop teaching from a book.  WHAT?! Who does that? Me. Hopefully.  We don’t need textbooks to learn.  We need experience and inquiry and the rest should come together.

I want to get the kids as passionate about it as I am.  I’m not the teacher I pictured myself to be.  And that doesn’t mean I should jump ship, that means I need to rework my plans.

So that’s going to be my focus, and I won’t be flooding you here with my plans and ideas, but I will be posting about how it’s going, and where I’m at at this point in my life.

Wish me luck

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