Quotes to Think About

"It is useful to think of the growth of teachers as occurring in stages, linked very generally to experience gained over time"


This is from an article written by Lilian Kratz entitled "The Developmental Stages of Teachers." I compare this statement to children as well as to teachers. Children develop in stages and according to research, the more experiences they have, the better their learning will develop. 


http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/pubs/katz-dev-stages.html. 




"I always liked kids. I liked babysitting and playing with younger kids." - Louise Derman-Sparks, Professor Emeritus, Pacific Oaks College, CA


Those words could have been taken right out of my mouth. This described me as a young girl but I never thought about becoming a teacher right away. It was after the birth of my first child that teaching became a thought, a dream, and finally, a reality.