No Substitute for Perspective

Perspective is a compassionate activity of viewing your situation from another’s position or viewing their situation relative to your own.  Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of observing from other people’s perspectives.

Recently I worked with a substitute teacher going through an entire lesson from our new elementary reading program.  My task was to view it from the perspective of both a child participating in the learning and a teacher planning for the lesson.  The twenty pages of the published lesson plan were daunting from either perspective.  I watched this teacher glide through the objectives with a smile, creating a flow of active engagement and a room of participating learners.  It became very easy for me to see the lesson as a child.  I was immersed in her delivery.  When I snapped back into my role as teacher tasked with planning the lesson better, I had a hard time considering efficiencies.  She had taken a task that had frustrated even the most experienced teachers I know and fit it into less than the required time, resulting in student work showing every bit of what was expected from a room of first-graders, by and large. I was impressed to say the least, until we debriefed on the lesson, then I was flabbergasted.
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She smiled knowingly as I shared my understanding of the hours of reading and preparation other teachers are putting into this work.  She smiled, every bit as genuinely, as she explained how she leaves her teaching job to work a retail shift at night, to further support her family.  Through it all, she smiled.  Sometimes, when things are hard, when we feel so tired, when we think we couldn’t possibly be being effective, we need perspective…and a smile.

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