I am honored to accept this award on behalf of myself, my students, their parents, my co-workers and my family. Teaching is a group effort.
I believe that my philosophies of life and my love for children have earned me this award. I was taught by my parents to be positive, giving and accepting. These are the attributes that I share with my students, their parents, my colleagues and my own family everyday.
Waking up each day I am thankful that I have another day to share myself with others. I respect myself as a worthy person so know that I have positive energy to share. Teaching or modeling self respect and respect of others is the basic ingredient to a successful day.
Sharing my knowledge of a subject and my passion for learning is what I give to my students. Then they take that new knowledge and enthusiasm home to share with their families. Having empathy in my heart helps me to accept all children. Each child is a special person. Each child has a parent(s) that loves them. My students are all coming from their own unique home enviroment, which is not for me to judge, but to understand and accept.
Knowing that each child learns at their own rate and style is necessary in order to be an effective teacher. For those gifted students I am happy and excited. I want to encourage those students to soar to their highest potential. I struggled with reading, thus learning, when I was young. I can empathize with children who are having the same feelings about learning and school as I once did. For these students I want to motivate and encourage them to work to the best of their abilities and to let them know that their hard work will be rewarded. Look at me, my hard work payed off.
In closing, I am pleased with a job well done on my behalf, but mostly by the students that I have taught that have achieved their own goals.
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