By Josh Kleyman,
Graduate Faculty
What impact do we have as educators? A question I have asked myself often. At times, we are given the opportunity to see and hear first hand.
This past week, a student from Wahlert High School sent in her application to High School Field Ecology for this coming summer. In it, she included an article she and her classmates wrote after returning home from a week’s trip to the Kelly Campus this fall. What impact did the graduate students have as their teachers? If having a student desperately want to return for the summer does not speak enough, the following excerpts from their article does justice to their power as educators.
“While opening our hearts and minds we got the chance to reflect and we discovered who we are, as opposed to the character we had been portraying. We learned to transpose what we learned in the field into our daily lives. We celebrated each move our peers made as they began to break through their shells and show off their true colors, which had been shrouded from view.”
“In 10 years, what will matter is the impact you have had on the people you’ve met in the journey of life. Our group leaders were so human and real to us. They taught us to transport their passion about the earth into our daily lives.”
“At school we came to realize that everyone needs to have passion about something. A fire was awoken within us. We resolved to find passion in something, as we were inspired by our counselors to stand up and do something bigger than ourselves.”
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