Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The Best Year So Far!

Since the end of the school term last year, I was already aware that I was going to be given an exciting deployment this year in 2009. I was informed that I was most likely going to be given the responsibility of teaching both Science and Maths to the same class. As far as I was aware, this is not the normal practice outside of primary school. I was really excited about all the things I could do with the flexibility of time that this new deployment was going to give me. I spent some time planning out some possible lessons and all the stuff that my class would be doing together.

Then rolled along end 2008. I was given confirmation that I was indeed going to be deployed as mentioned above. I looked at my time table. I realised that a full half of my allocated periods was going to be spent with this class.
I actually became very afraid. I was so concerned that if my class and I did not get along, this year would be one of the most challenging years of my life. Imagine going into a class 16 periods a week and knowing that it was going to be tough every step of the way.

I began to pray in earnest that He would grant me favour with my new class. I asked Him to make me different, to make the class different, unique, so that we could be so amazingly different from the rest of the school that we would be recognised as the best in the school. Not just best in terms of discipline or conduct or cleanliness. I asked God to make us the best. I wanted other teachers to say that the best class that they know of in 2009 is my angels of 2A3.

Since I have started the year, I have come to know my angels and am really enjoying their company. I am learning more and more about them and they are teaching me so much about joy and perseverance in the face of difficulty. They have made my teaching time in school absolutely wonderful and I actually look forward to stepping into the class just to share my life with them.

This has been so far, the best year of my teaching career.

Lord, please bless me and my angels so that we may be a wonderful, positive blessing to the people we all meet as a class. Lord grant us favour in Your eyes and in the eyes of our leaders. Help us to do our very best and never anything less than that. Help us Lord to became advanced practitioner of the basics skills that make us all successful.

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