C4T #2

Jenny's Learning Journey by Jenny She

Ms She is an elementary teacher in New Zealand whose blog I found while visiting an edublog called attheteachersdesk. The first post I commented on was Why Teachers Should Never Give Up On Any Students. In this post there was nice video of a boy going along the beach throwing starfish back into the water to save their lives as the tide was going out. A man explains to him that the beach is miles long and that he can't really make a difference. After listening respectfully, the boy threw another starfish back into the water and said to the man "I made a difference to that one". Sometimes education can seem this way. We can get overwhelmed by indifferent students, school system bureaucracy, and other things we didn't expect or sign up for. But if we can make a real difference in one more life, it's worth all the effort. Never give up!

The second blog I commented on titled What is Life to You, Ms She had just returned from a trip to Asia where she had a wonderful time and had visited her ill father while there. Now she had to return to the real world. She wrote about how sometimes our priorities get mixed up and then shows a short video that reflected some of the traps of life. A man offered his guests some coffee and brought out a variety of cups - some old, some new, some plain, some fancy or expensive. After the guests had their coffee, the old and plain cups had gone unused. He commented to his guests that they had wanted coffee but wound up being more concerned about which cup they had. The moral of the story: the cup doesn't make the coffee any better. Sometimes we can get caught up in the rat race, trying to acquiring more and better stuff that we lose sight of the really important things in life like God, family, good health, etc. Everything else is just a cup