Doctor Grandma

One of the standard requirements, now,

is a teaching philosophy,

to prove your worth as a teacher,

— with stories of how you inspire

critical thinking in the classroom, through

engaging conversation,

applying sociological thought

to the world that students live in.

Do they mean the world of twitter,

— instagram, or snapchat?

the world of Facebook Messenger,

— the culture of Zoom?

Engagement means to understand

we live in a brave new world,

o fast-paced interaction

of 5-minute blips of TV news,

where knowledge is at their fingertips

so what can I possibly say,

while standing right in front of them

50 minutes a day?

Engagement is to forget everything

they ever learned in school,

what will be on the test tomorrow,

whose assignment they can borrow.

It is very hard to analyze

the world we live in, as we live it,

but that is our task, to see

the end in the beginning,

to challenge all around us,

and the way we are told to be,

to imagine, to ask why that is,

that is my teaching philosophy,

to have them think creatively,

to never accept what we do,

to ask why we do it,

and to build their world anew.

cfblack, 05-13-2020

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