If I teach with the best educational techniques,
and provide stimulating and motivational lessons,
but have not love,
I am but a time-wasting information processor.

If I spend hours preparing my lesson plans
with the clearest instructional objectives,
but have not love,
I am just an over-organized ideologue.

If I utilize the most eye-catching visual aids
and the latest classroom technology,
but have not love,
I am just a high-tech visionary.

A loving teacher is kind and patient with every student,
regards each student as an important individual,
and treats their personal problems with confidence.
A loving teacher does not merely talk at, but relates to, the students,
and provides a exemplary model of life to those in the classroom.

A teacher’s love is not condescending,
does not play favorites,
does not gossip,
does not publicly humiliate,
is not easily agitated or discouraged,
and does not blow-up or give-up on misbehaving students.

A teacher’s love bears the responsibility of instruction,
Believes that student’s minds should not be wasted,
Hopes that every student will achieve their potential,
and endures all distrubances in the process.

The latest text-books will soon be out-of-date.
Contemporary teaching methods will become outmoded.
Educational technology is obsolete before we know it,
but a loving teacher can affect a student’s life forever.

Now abideth preparation, instruction, and love,
But the greatest of these is a teacher’s love
that seeks the highest good of the students.

By Jim Fowler
Email: jimfowler@christinyou.net
Christ In You Ministries
Reprinted with permission

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