"Happy New Year! and welcome back to school." 2015 has arrived. The new year was welcomed throughout the world. Many cities celebrated as the clock struck midnight in their respective time zones. Some lit up the sky with artful works of fire which exploded in a spectacle of color, light, and sound.
This was shared through different means of communication: Television, Social Media, friends and family who shared their plans of celebrating with joy and hope the arrival of the new year. 2015 began in those first seconds, which then gave way to the first day of the first month, of a new year.
But now it is time to go, and return back to school, and continue working were students and teachers left off. The winter break is over, soon spring will come, and before summer, students should be prepared to become promoted to advance further in their education. Students can achieve this with the help of those who support them: fellow students, parents, administrators, and their teachers.
The responsibility, then, falls upon the shoulders of teachers, to get students prepared, to get students ready to finish what remains of the school year, and to inspire them to pursue further study through higher learning. It is not the teacher, however, who must bare the whole weight of the full responsibility for learning and studying, for each one who is an educator bares some of that weight too, but with cooperation, collaboration, and a united effort, this can be achieved.
It is time to remind students that though it may be a new year, their education time frame is not new, but rather on a continuous point, which began back on the first day of school.
Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
Copyright 2015. MRCR Educational Consulting Firm. All Rights Reserved.
August, it seems, has become the month of "Back to School". We mark the return to education this month. Before the first day of school, students go to bed the prior night knowing that the next day is the start, and continuation, of our education.
As students begin to wake up that first day, some eagered to get started while others struggle with thoughts of what is to take place, they begin to make a series of choices: Wake up, Snooze, Shower, Have Breakfast, Pack Lunch, Walk, Bike, Be Ready for the Ride, etc. All these choices and not even in school yet!
As a student and an educator I have had over 33 years of back to school covering four decades (80's, 90's, 2000's, 10's). Each year beginning with a first day of school. Each first day of school unique, with nerves and butterflies in the stomach, a permanent part of my educational path, my educational history.
Five stories come to mind when reminiscing about the first day of school. Memories of that day we go back to school. That day we return to education. See if these sound familiar to you too:
- The new student in school.
- Being late to school.
- Walking into the wrong classroom.
- Not wearing the propper attire.
- The new student who can't speak English.
Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
Copyright 2014. MRCR Educational Consulting Firm. All Rights Reserved.
We are returning to education.
We have had our Summer Break,
and now,
it is time to return to education,
so we may become educated furthermore.
This we do
as we transition from Summer Sessions and prepare for "Back to School"
in anticipation
of that first day of school
which indicates
the start of a new school year.
We have reached the time in which we return to our places of education.
Places where we spend time: Learning, Teaching, Studying.
Places where knowledge is exchanged
by those who are part of the Educational Process:
Students, Teachers, Learners, Administrators,
Adults who serve for the betterment of education for all.
Author: Manuel R. CortezRodas - Educator
Copyright 2014. MRCR Educational Consulting Firm. All Rights Reserved.
