TEACHER AS HUMAN BEING
BADGE
WILD GEESE
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
~ Mary Oliver
This is perhaps the easiest and most difficult badge you have the option to earn in this class. It is designed to remind you that even while you are studying to be a teacher, you get to be a person, too. I offer this bonus badge in hopes that later, when you become a teacher (and/or whatever else you decide), you'll give yourself permission to just be.
Sorry, but this badge doesn't replace another required badge. It can, however, help your final grade. Here's how: I do use the plus/minus system when I award final grades. So if you complete this badge, I'll bump your final grade up a notch, which is to say if you've earned a B, you'll get a B+, or if you earned an A-, you'll get an A, and so on.
Just to reiterate, this bonus badge is absolutely optional.
Sorry, but this badge doesn't replace another required badge. It can, however, help your final grade. Here's how: I do use the plus/minus system when I award final grades. So if you complete this badge, I'll bump your final grade up a notch, which is to say if you've earned a B, you'll get a B+, or if you earned an A-, you'll get an A, and so on.
Just to reiterate, this bonus badge is absolutely optional.
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