Welcome June
Time is running a marathon and how!!! With Jovial June setting in, 2017
has been half-way through already. Everyone is either in the mid-way towards
achieving their targets or almost achieved. But!!! There are a few bunches who is
feeling the excitement of a New Beginning. Confused Yet???
Yes!!! Amongst all those lucky people are the Teachers like us who are
all excited to welcome our students… or how I love to call them – My BabiesJ. We have always talked about
Calendar Year (Jan – Dec) or Financial Year (April – Mar) but seldom do we
discuss an Academic Year (June – May). We all have lived our lives
according to Academic Year in our schooling years and then branched out in own lives.
But a Teacher’s life is always about an “Academic Year” or I may call it as
“Marvel Year”. June marks with welcoming our children each year and we – the
Teachers are all set and equipped to receive them. Each year we look forward to new class with new faces, different sounds, new pattern of expressions
and many loving little ones. What a wonder it is!!
It is rightly quoted by a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of school of
analytical psychology, sir Carl Jung, that, “An understanding heart is everything in a
teacher.” Though she meets 20
different human expressions each year, a teacher is someone who never fails to
identify the beauty of each heart and uniqueness of each little soul. She’s the
one who thinks about her children, breathes the time spent with them and sleeps
over her planning for the next day. In my past 11 years of being an educator
myself, I have observed a remarkable change in a teacher’s persona. A 21st
Century teacher has evolved herself from only being a teacher to a ‘thinker who
teaches and touches’. Today’s teacher is the one who connects to a human heart
through her tender smile and lets her teaching flow automatically.
Teaching-learning in 21st century and further is evolving
more towards creating human connections by deepening emotional attachments. In
his Harvard Business Review article, “Three Ways Leaders Make Emotional
Connections”, Scott Edinger suggests three ways leaders can forge emotional
connections:
· Give
people your undivided attention. When talking to someone, don't be
simultaneously checking emails, surfing the internet, or reading a memo.
· Be
aware that emotions are contagious. "Whether positive or
negative, your emotional state has a significant influence on those you work
with, especially when you are the boss."
· Develop
your sense of extraversion. "If you're a leader, you
simply must develop the ability to reach out to others, engage them in
discussion, and actively provide feedback. You're the one who has to be out in
front, taking the lead in developing these relationships."
So
at the onset of anew ‘Marvel Year’, with a heart full of pride, let us promise
to evolve ourselves to Teachers who are Leaders and commit towards nurturing
Tomorrow’s Leaders.
From
one Educator’s Heart to every Educators' Hearts J
Janki
Patel
