I wouldn’t be much of a teacher if I didn’t have a love of learning and, more specifically, sharing that with others. It’s a part of the brain that never turns off—always clamouring for more.

Here’s the problem:

Very little of that knowledge is rooted i experience. Most of it is nothing more than disparate pieces of information that make for good trivia, but wholly less applicable.

Consider the time I had as a magician, where eveything from stage craft to showmanship could instantly be applied to my own set. However, this also built the foundation for the classroom where knowledge of timing and audience management are paramount.

Hence, my long time quest for acquiring knowledge for the sake of acquiring knowledge is being replaced with a curated look at how I can tack this on to a lived experience. Or, in the case of my students, how can I tack it on to their lived experience?

It’s one thing to be willfully ignorant, but it’s a whole other to know all the workings of a car engine and have no clue how to fix it.