Title: Why We Must Recreate the Wheel | Edutopia
Headings: Why We Must Recreate the Wheel
Professional Learning
Why We Must Recreate the Wheel
By Ryan W Ihrke
July 23, 2013
Remembering How It All Began
The Superior Teacher

Content: The Superior Teacher
Over time, all teachers become driven by their handouts, their finely tuned worksheets, their greatly loved activities. We begin to forget why we use these and simply use them because we have a nostalgic connection to that one time when the kids loved and learned and we felt accomplished. This sense of accomplishment is something we can achieve often, but only if we change -- often. The argument is frequently made that teachers must reflect because students and their needs change, and that argument has great merit. But we must also reflect as we change, as we grow, and most of all as we become comfortable. Confucius once said, "The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort." Be not the common teacher. Find no comfort in old lectures, old worksheets, old activities. If they once worked, great!