I admire teachers! It is a joy dealing with a teacher who knows her/his business and who brings excitement to the art of teaching. In the past week I reflected on this at least three times.
1. Last Saturday, at The Tree of Life Nursery in San Juan Capistrano, a talk about landscape design was given by Pat Overby of Fullerton. She's knows design, she knows plants, and she knows how to communicate.
2. Wednesday morning I tried to reach Eva at school for some critical information. The secretary rang Eva's room, but no answer. Then she decided to page her. Finally, Eva picked up the phone to see what the office needed that warranted an interruption of her class. As the secretary connected me to Eva, the secretary said to me, "She is so funny! When I asked here where she had been and why she didn't pick up the telephone when it rang, she emphatically stated, 'I WAS TEACHING'.
3. Wednesday night at the church Men's Group, Norm Kredit continued leading the study of the last book in the Bible - Revelation. Norm has the gift of tying many parts of scripture together with the text being studied and is able to sketch on the white board to crystalize some of his points.
It is a reminder to me that each of us is skilled in a number of areas and when we are allowed to teach in our area of interest, there is a double blessing - a blessing to the teacher as well as to the learner.
a good teacher is a learner first!
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