If confidence is the name of the game and I don't got it, where does that leave me?
Today my students were busy trying to make me feel like the "cool" teacher so we could play games. Knowing their game, I met their challenge with humor in the form of exposing their actions. Frightened by my knowledge they chose to try to make me feel uncool. To this I always reply with one swift answer, it doesn't matter how cool you think I am, just how cool I know I am. You could think I am the weirdest teacher in the world, but I know I'm cool.
To this I usually get the nervous laughters, as how could anyone in 6th grade comprehend not caring what others think of them? Alas, I told them it is my goal to get them to believe in themselves as cool and smart and capable regardless of what others think, because after all, they are only as cool as the believe themselves to be. Of course, hilarity follows.
Student: What is confidence? I don't know what that is...
Me: You know what it means to be confident, right?
Student: Yeah, well I don't have any of that. I am (insert funky voice) hopeless in that area. Lacking of the confident-ness-eses.
Class bursts out in laughter, because let's face it she was not phased by it. It is my day that is often filled with quotes like this. My little life lessons sprinkled into a class discussion and utterly failing amongst the kiddos. But I guss that's cause I'm weird, right?
Later... same student starts encouraging another
Student: You are smart--- look to the bright side. GO to the bright side. Have some confident!
Me: Yes, have some confidence.
Student: It's confidence? O-M-G.... I was confidence that it was confident.
Me: Uhhh...
Student: I hate language. Grammar is stupid. Math is funner.
Me: Funner?
Student: See, more fun is too long to say, so uh... funner. See why I hate grammar, it takes too long!
At least the kids can make me smile, even when I'm having a bad day.
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