It’s not too often we get to thank our teachers for what they’ve taught us, but it’s less often that we get to learn from them for longer than one school year. I consider myself fortunate to have had the chance to be a student of Lopen. Yes, Lopen Pema Woedzer it is.
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| Lopen Pema Woedzer |
Most people
would define a good teacher as someone who makes their students excel
academically and do well on their tests. I believe that’s almost right, but a
little off. I believe that a good teacher doesn’t have one dimension but two.
They not only make you excel, but they make you want to go to school. They care
about the student’s insecurities and problems, and most importantly they are
there to support you.
Lopen was very strict
with studies and if one slipped a little with bad behaviour, he would make
everyone not forget his style of dealing with the un-behaved. I was and remain
an underperformer still in Dzongkha but whatever little I know in Dzongkha is
because of Lopen. Lopen was feared for
his dealings with the ill behaved and I was a registered ill-behaved in his
books😊. A smack or two on our cheek was enough to get us into behaving like
humans.
My formative years with Lopen as my teacher taught me many of the concepts within my philosophical approach to human-centered education I used as a teacher. Now as a teacher: getting to know every individual pupil, coaching pupils from their strengths, continually raising expectations slightly based on prior accomplishments (and providing the support to achieve those expectations), and accepting every person for who they are by seeing who they could be with support and guidance is who I strive to be. Without my 3rd through 5th grade years, that doesn’t happen. Lopen Kardinchey la.
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