Can you be a champion for a kid?
- Sep 26, 2016
- 2 min read
When I began putting together my professional learning network (PLN) for my EDU 776 class, the fist thing I began doing was setting up folders by category. One folder was titled "Education Videos." Before I had even finished typing the title, I knew the first video that was going in that folder - Rita Pierson's "Every kid needs a champion."
I first encountered this amazing video at the start of my graduate school career. I remember wanting to jump up and yell "yes, yes, YES!" when it was over because almost everything she said was something I had either said or thought at one point. This video energized me, it got me excited for teaching and working with students. And that is the beauty of this video.
It is not meant to tell you how to plan a lesson or what the newest trend in education is or what's the bright shiny new app or website to use in your classroom. No, it won't do any of that. But what I believe it WILL do, is remind you that your students are human. Some will struggle and some will excel and they all, at some point, to some degree, will need us to be their champion, and that, hopefully, will get you excited.
Being a champion for a student, no matter how much support, cheerleading and time that entails is what it's all about. Whether the difference we make in their life is big or small, we are impacting, affecting, CHANGING another human life. And that's why we need to be those champions for those kids- because we are changing the lives of those who will run the world tomorrow, and have a chance to make it a better place if we teach them well and be that champion that supports them.
See the video that inspired this post here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFnMTHhKdkw
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