Awareness for others... And for me!

 In one of my classes last week, we recently unpacked Vocation and vocation which led me to briefly touching on Deaf and deaf differences.

On Sunday, I went to one of the most powerful performances I have attended in having a front row seat of The Miracle Worker which is about Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan. I remember as a child, upon learning about the impact the teacher had on her pupil, hoping I could be a teacher like Annie one day.

In two of my classes on Monday, I had to ask different students to move their hands as they spoke with hands obscuring their mouths and I misheard other students one or two times when they were asking questions. The below visuals are pretty good representations of what it felt like in the moment when communication wasn't entirely accessible for me the other day.

Hopefully, for my students, these are moments of modeling how to advocate and correcting missteps I have made along the way when hearing something incorrectly (in addition to my growing in humility) for my students.