We went berserk over food during today’s Movie Viewing (or was it only me?)
We saw the movie Freedom Writers that really hit home. It was a moving film about a teacher who gave it all to make an impact in the education of Room 203, a group of delinquents who all came from the mad world full of street killing and drugs, broken families and rape, and food scarcity and thievery.
Personally, the movie got me praying. My heart was breaking for all the youth in the movie. Their experiences were so real and so tangible that I almost reached out my hand to give them a pat on the back, or even offer a hug.
Seeing how Ms. G did it, I realized that teaching involves a lot of getting involved in the students’ lives. You have to be on their shoes, tracking their line of thinking and hearing the beating of their hearts. It’s no less than trying to get to know a person and getting them to understand what you know because teaching is all that: involving one’s self in the student’s persona and trying to make that person imbibe what’s in you.
Yes, it’s really on the students whether they would learn or not because if they want to, they would; and if they don’t, they won’t but unlike what most people say, it’s partially what we as teachers do that highly affects their motivation to learn.
As a future PT, I will have to look at my patients and see the human in them that needs my extra and conscious effort to make them re-learn the “normal” patterns of movement. They’re no robots whom I can easily give up on lest they give up on themselves and just live the “disabled” way that they do.
Physical Therapists are in some way life-givers. We show the PWDs that life is possible again and that we’re here to help them. I could be Ms. G someday, having no hint of surrender, clearly desiring that my learners actually learn.
Changed lives—it’s what will keep us going.
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