The Transition: Levitating From A Student To A Teacher

I wonder, is moving from a student to a teacher really a levitation? I make this inquiry simply because I give credence to the notion that both reading and writing are transactional phenomena that require the efforts of both the producers and the recipients, to create the event of awareness. For example Li Bai might have written an anthology of Chinese literature, but every reader will approach the book with his or her own experience that will give the readings new meanings that are generated from the readers background knowledge. With this being said, I always thought of a classroom as symbiotic realm in which students and the teacher can interact to achieve one goal: making the world a better place. The teachers job is to take her knowledge of the subject and use her skills not only to "recite" the material (as many teachers and college instructors do), but to plan lessons with efficacy that will motivate students to want to attain their full scholastic potential. In return students will ascend academically from grade school, to middle school, to high school, to college and beyond. After college, it is inevitable that students will enter the workforce and pursue careers that will be beneficial to society. This is the reason why I see the class as a team and the teacher as the coach of that team. If a diligent student is not able to grasp the material by the end of the semester, the teacher should share the shame and consider the possibility that he is simply a walking tape recorder. There are too many educators that are teaching for fiscal gain instead of teaching students what they need to know in order to move up in society. This is the reason why I must delve deep into the theories and methodologies of pedagogy and train myself to be effective in my field, for the right reasons.