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Describe a recent time when you’ve been discouraged with a student’s progress. Have you witnessed a change in the student’s life, or are you still waiting for that change to occur?
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A time when I have been discouraged with a student’s progress was at the beginning of the school year, but by the end of the school year he was in tears because he did not want the school year to end. I can attribute this turn-around in the student’s behavior to showing him unconditional love in how I reproved, corrected, and instructed him (and the class) through biblical philosophy. There are many students over the years I have instructed, counseled, ministered to in whom I am still waiting for this change to occur, but many have gone on to become educators, pharmacist, doctors, lawyers and ministers of the Gospel. Seeing this gives me Hope for others and the ones they encounter.
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I had one student in my math courses the past two years who was much older than the other students. My courses were online, so the other students did not realize her age. She wrote me an email at the end of the school year thanking me for being patient with her and motivating her to learn difficult concepts. As an online teacher, I don’t see my students face-to-face. But I have been blessed to see growth in my students.
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I am still waiting for that change to occur. I continue to pray for that child and know that even if God did not bring about change in that child’s life at the point that I was his teacher, that I am blessed to have nurtured the seed.
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I have a student who is not sure of his salvation. I have been trying to encourage him, and to keep sharing God’s Word, and to pray for him. Still waiting on the change!
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Having a student who had a negative attitude, excuse, etc.. towards all learning. I had to have a heart change, pray for them and my attitude toward them. Each interaction I needed to engage in a positive way and eventually the heart change happens and a connection is formed.