Fifty Years of Teaching
Categories: Léo’s Insights 2024-2025
I must admit this is hard to believe. If I count my first lab assistant job at the University of Saskatchewan, this year marks my fiftieth year as a teacher. So, in celebration of this milestone, I decided to finally record some of the multitude of stories I’ve accumulated over the last half century as my vlog series for the year.
To copy an oft-heard disclaimer on some TV series, these stories are all true, only names have been changed to protect the innocent. Actually, not all these stories involve the innocent. In fact, they almost all involve students guilty of being young human beings learning how to navigate an increasingly complex world. Some of these stories also involve adults, parents in particular.
Everybody loves to hear stories, and stories are told for two main reasons. The first is to entertain. Most people love to hear how you fell in the slough and how embarrassed you were when you came out looking like the jolly green giant! The other reason for storytelling is to teach. Jesus did a lot of storytelling. Sometimes the lesson being taught was easy to grasp, sometimes not. Either way, Jesus used a lot of stories to make His point.
My motivation for creating this story-based vlog series involves both elements of storytelling. I hope to entertain and I hope to extend and apply the lessons learned from each story to unschooling, parenting and family.
I pray these stories bless you all.
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