SELF-FULFILLMENT

“Self-fulfillment is a liberating part of education.” When it comes to teach, we, as teachers, want our students to be successful, but, to be part of student’s success, we should know not only why we teach, but also who we are in the teaching process. We teach because we are concerned about issues that affect the human spirit. Furthermore we are the ones that believe in students.

HOW TO HELP OUR STUDENTS REACH THEIR POTENTIAL TO THE FULLEST

“Teachers who contribute to encouraging students to desire lives of fulfillment meet a most worthy teaching goal.”  The spiritual goal is the key to encourage students to desire lives of fulfillment because it aims the human beings’ spiritual component which helps students achieve their potential and their purpose. We need to transform students’ life and help them reach their potential by respecting and trusting them. Respecting and trusting students will create a good relationship between teacher and student; that relationship helps create communication between learner and teacher. While communicating, teacher can be aware of the students’ potentials, so that the teacher will help develop the skills a students has. “It is not what teachers do with disadvantaged students, but what they believe and how they think about them make a difference in successful teaching.”

HOW TO BE A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION TO OUR STUDENTS

If we want to be a source of inspiration to our students, we must have a surer sense of what to teach to whom and how to go about teaching it in such a way that it will make those taught more effective, less alienated, and better human beings. We should teach in such way that our students can get a meaningful and endless learning. “Human beings are personal, timeless, subjective, and social.” So, if we teach to inspire learners being better students, better citizens and better human beings, we will become a source of inspiration to them. Eventually, we can make the social, academic and spiritual goals work in synergy to help our students reach their potential to the fullest and to be a source of inspiration to them as well.