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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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I had couple of challenging students during my career of teaching. But I think even if sometime I did struggled to deal with difficult personalities,
I also Know that God helped me to be strong. I believe that God put those children on my path to help them to grow through my Christian examples and prayers. -
The past school year, there was a group of students who struggled to mature and be role models for fellow classmates and students in the school. My prayer is that during their time in coming months, as school approaches, that the Lord would pull them closer to him as he shapes them into his likeness and as they learn to think about the consequences of their actions.
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I have not been a teacher very long and only on Zoom so I have not had the opportunity to get to know my students very well. I have been a mother for a very long time and can speak to this issue with my own children. I have 4 kids and they all accepted Christ as their personal savior at young ages and the older two graduated from all Christian schools and the younger two are are still making their way through. The older three have all wrestled with their faith. The older two, especially in college, have not always matched their actions with what they were taught. I pray all the time for all of them and ultimately they have to have their own personal relationships with Christ and wrestle out how to apply it to their lives. My job, at this point, after spending countless hours and years teaching them, is to just be the best example that I can be and interject when they allow it, loving them through it all.
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We had a family transfer to us from a bordering state because of Covid-19 restrictions at their school. Their oldest son was in 11th grade. He came with this attitude of “you can’t get me to do anything”. By the end of the 1st semester, he knew that we cared, and that we wanted him to succeed. He started to push himself to go above and beyond the requirements to pass his courses. His heart not only changed at school but at home as well. I am not sure about his relationship with Christ, but I am sure that he is allowing God to clean his heart.
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Last school year I had a student who frustrated me almost daily with his behavior. He struggled with ADD and distracted others consistently. God helped me realize that because this student struggled academically, he was trying to make himself feel valuable in other ways. This included making others laugh and picking on others in order to provoke negative behavior and get them in trouble. This realization helped me approach how I managed the student’s behavior. I tried to encourage him more and instill confidence with the words I spoke to him. I started asking him more questions instead of lecturing to make him realize that he had the power of choices to determine the outcome of a situation. We discussed many times as a course how we can choose right or wrong and the impact of our choices, including accepting Christ as our Savior and walking in obedience to Him.
Although I don’t believe this student has accepted Christ, seeds have been planted. I pray he will remember he has a choice and make that decision one day.
