Morning reflection....

 

After seeing so many cries and shouts and why ´s and how ´s on this forum I thought I would submit thisquote to everyone here to enable us to exchange a few ideas.

I personnally think that if you open your mind to others, if you try to discover other ways of thinking, if you think that the other person also is fragile , if you think noone is after you, trying to hurt you , then maybe you can start understanding and look for more essential truths. 

What do you think?

Have a nice day.

 

                                       Morning Dear,

 

               We teachers have high Egos. We all know everything and think everyone konws or must know the things as we do. So why are we here? Are we here to teach others "a lesson", or to learn something? Personally, I am here to learn something from my colleagues. Whenever I am online here, I try to get rid of the "teacher Gülgün" inside me and devote myself to learning. Any kind of positive teaching from my colleagues is and will be accepted by me. Because, to me if a teacher ´s learning ends, so does his/her teaching. In my country there is a good saying about being a rookie: It says " you were not born ..............." For example, you were not born as a  teacher. I was not born as a cook... etc. I was not born as a teacher or ESLPrintables member :)                            

 

 

That´s a nice morning reflection, Mariethe.

 

Good point, gulgunmurat.  As an aside, though, here is something that you might not know and wish to learn about. Using dear is often seen as patronizing and offensive.  I cringed when I recently received an email from an ex-student saying the same thing to me and I immediately made a mental note to teach the etiquette and hidden rules around this to my current class .  Although ok in some situations, it is a term of endearment mainly reserved for one´s children and partner.

 

Cheers

 

Jayho

 

 

 

 

Another quote for you (not sure where it ´s from) that I often write on the front of my lesson plans notebook:

 

 

@Jayho ---> Good point about ´Dear´. I see that a lot too. Probably most non-native speakers see "Dear" most of all in written letters, where very often it´s not used as a term of endearment, but a salutation and I suspect that´s where most of the inappropriate uses come from - or direct translation from languages other than English.