You are done. Your project is turned in. . .but. . .are you really done?
Parker J. Palmer (1998) says in his book The Courage to Teach:Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life "The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student's inward teacher is ignored" (p. 31).
It is my hope that you have connected experiences and skills from this class to your inner (or inward) lives. It is my hope that you have found some nugget of learning or truth that you can take with you. Maybe you learned about yourself and how you deal with deadlines or pressure. Maybe you have learned about your writing process. While this was obviously a writing class, something more lurks behind every learning experience. If we take a few moments and reflect, we can connect to our own inner teacher (our true teacher), listen to him or her, and walk away changed.
If you like, tell me what nuggets you think you may carry with you.
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