Attraversiamo-Crossing Over
The Italian word, Attraversiamo, crossing over, pacts quite a punch when it is applied to the art of teaching. The time has come for educators to consider crossing the bridge that holds, on one side, the traditional practices of educating and on other the new world of engaging in a learning journey with children. The walk across may be challenging. Let us consider that as you cross you will encounter wind, rain and slippery conditions. These forces impede your crossing. Similarly the conventional mindsets of teaching will press on you to keep your traditional roles as the rulers of your classrooms. Relinquishing what is familiar is difficult. Most people don't like change especially when everything seems to be working fine. So why do it? We do it because children deserve the best of us. If this is not why you chose to be a teacher then you are in the wrong profession. A teacher is foremost a learner, even after she earns her degree. Read the Hundred Languages of Children to ...